Foxe's Book of Martyrs

Foxe's Book of Martyrs is a collection of unforgettable accounts of religious persecution. This modernized selection brings together some of the most stirring tales of the interrogation and execution of heretics burnt at the stake in the reign of Mary, with some of the original woodcut illustrations and an illuminating introduction.

Auteur
John N. King is editor of Reformation and co-editor of Literature and History. His publications include English Reformation History: The Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition (Princeton UP, 1982), Milton and Religious Controversy: Satire and Polemic in Paradise Lost (CUP, 2000), and Foxe's Book of Martyrs and Early Modern Print Culture (CUP, 2006).

Contenu

• Introduction

• Select Bibliography

• Chronology of Foxe's Life and Times

• Select Narratives

• 1: Thomas Bilney

• 2: William Tyndale

• 3: Anne Askew

• 4: John Roger

• 5: Lawrence Sanders

• 6: John Hooper

• 7: Rowland Taylor

• 8: Thomas Tomkins

• 9: William Hunter

• 10: Rawlins White

• 11: George Marsh

• 12: Thomas Haukes

• 13: John Bradford and John Leaf

• 14: Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley

• 15: Stephen Gardiner

• 16: John Philpot

• 17: Bartlett Green

• 18: Thomas Cranmer

• 19: The Guernsey Martyrs

• 20: Joan Waste

• 21: William Dangerfield

• 22: Richard Woodman

• 23: Rose Allin and other Colchester Martyrs

• 24: George Eagles

• 25: The Islington Martyrs

• 26: Prest's Wife

• 27: Edwin Sandys

• 28: Lady Elizabeth

• 29: Judgement Tales

• Explanatory Notes

• Glossary of Persons

• Glossary of Places

• Glossary of Words and Terms

• Index