Foxe’s Book of Martyrs and Early Modern Print Culture
The present study constitutes the history of a book that epitomizes the history of the book in early modern England. This inquiry investigates the exemplarity of the Book of Martyrs as a collection that embodies a range of practices related to early modern English printing, publication, and rece...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2013
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| Online Access: | https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/35522 |
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| Institutions: | Thư viện Trường Đại học Đà Lạt |
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| Summary: | The present study constitutes the history of a book that epitomizes the
history of the book in early modern England. This inquiry investigates
the exemplarity of the Book of Martyrs as a collection that embodies a
range of practices related to early modern English printing, publication,
and reception that is virtually complete. At the very same time, we must
recognize that this extraordinary compilation is unlike any other book
published in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. John Foxe’s vast
collection of unforgettable accounts of religious persecution and related
documents centers on the experience of hundreds of people who were
burnt alive for their religious beliefs during the reign of Mary I (1553–58).
Foxe oversaw expansion of his martyrological history from about 55,000
words in its initial Latin installment to a text that ballooned from about
1.8 to 3.8 million words in four vernacular editions overseen by Foxe and
his publisher, John Day |
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