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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Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Egile nagusia: King, John N
Formatua: Liburua
Hizkuntza:English
Argitaratua: Cambridge University Press 2013
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Sarrera elektronikoa:https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/35522
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Gaia: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