This book was first published in 2006. Second only to the Bible and Book of Common Prayer, John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, known as the Book of Martyrs, was the most influential book published in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The most complex and best-illustrated English book of its time, it recounted in detail the experiences of hundreds of people who were burned alive for their religious beliefs. John N. King offers the most comprehensive investigation yet of the compilation, printing, publication, illustration, and reception of the Book of Martyrs. He charts its reception across different editions by learned and unlearned, sympathetic and antagonistic readers. The many illustrations included here introduce readers to the visual features of early printed books and general printing practices both in England and continental Europe, and enhance this important contribution to early modern literary studies, cultural and religious history, and the history of the Book.

Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture

Literature & Fiction

King, John N.

British & Irish

Cambridge University Press

The Description for this book, English Reformation Literature: The Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition, will be forthcoming.

English Reformation Literature: The Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition

Religion & Spirituality

Princeton University Press

The description for this book, Tudor Royal Iconography: Literature and Art in an Age of Religious Crisis, will be forthcoming.

Tudor Royal Iconography: Literature and Art in an Age of Religious Crisis (Princeton Essays on the Arts)

Arts & Photography

In this extended treatment of Edmund Spenser's place in the Reformation literary tradition, John King presents the poet as a rival of classical and Italianate literary predecessors by placing his work within a distinctively English context. Rather than follow those contemporaries who rejected the unpretentious devices of mid-Tudor satire and allegory, Spenser, it is shown, infuses them with sophisticated standards of the Continental Renaissance.
 King's study begins with the consideration of Spenser's debut as an innovator who, paradoxically, emulates "Chaucerian" precedent for pastoral satire. By revising critical opinions that identify an iconoclastic movement in The Faerie Queene, he demonstrates the constructive aspect of the Reformation attack against idolatry that underlies the pervasive inversion and mutation of iconic tableaux in the poem. This study culminates in a detailed reading of Book I of The Faerie Queene that addresses Spenser's reformation, within the all-inclusive frame of allegorical romantic epic, of deficient and worldly forms of romance, pastoral, and tragedy into a set of purged and elevated Christian counterparts.

Spenser's Poetry and the Reformation Tradition

History & Criticism

Princeton Univ Pr

The description for this book, English Reformation Literature: The Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition, will be forthcoming.

Interest in John Foxe and his hugely influential text Acts and Monuments is particularly vibrant at present. This volume, the third to arise from a series of international colloquia on Foxe, collects essays by established and up-and-coming scholars. It broadly embraces five major areas of early modern studies: Roman Catholicism, women and gender, visual culture, the history of the book and historiography. Patrick Collinson provides an entire overview of the field of Foxe studies and further essays place Foxe and his work within the context of their times.

John Foxe and his World (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History)

Highley, Christopher

Biographies & Memoirs

Routledge

Anne Askew (1521-1546) was accused of heresy because of her denial of the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation and ritual of mass. These two works provide an extremely rare autobiographical account of heresy interrogations, torture, trial and conviction. Her manuscripts were smuggled out of England to John Bale on the Continent who edited and published them in 1545 and 1546 respectively.

The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works. Part 1: Printed Writings, 1500-1640, Volume 1 (Elgar Reference Collection)

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Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture

English Reformation Literature: The Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition

Tudor Royal Iconography: Literature and Art in an Age of Religious Crisis (Princeton Essays on the Arts)

Spenser's Poetry and the Reformation Tradition

English Reformation Literature: The Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition

John Foxe and his World (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History)

Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture

The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works. Part 1: Printed Writings, 1500-1640, Volume 1 (Elgar Reference Collection)