The John Foxe Project
The aim of this project is to publish a definitive four-text edition of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments of the English Martyrs. Foxe issued his original work in four versions over twenty years (1563, 1570, 1576 and 1583), and before that two shorter Latin versions (1554, 1559). The end product w...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2003
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| In: |
History compass
Year: 2003, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-3 |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | The aim of this project is to publish a definitive four-text edition of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments of the English Martyrs. Foxe issued his original work in four versions over twenty years (1563, 1570, 1576 and 1583), and before that two shorter Latin versions (1554, 1559). The end product was immensely influential in shaping that protestant English self-consciousness which emerged in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and survived as part of the ’philosophy of Empire’ until the middle of the twnentieth century. John Bunyan and John Milton, as well as generations of church historians and political pamphleteers, acknowledged a debt of gratitude to Foxe. After the vernacular bible, the Acts and Monuments was probably the most influential book to appear in English during the sixteenth century. |
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| ISSN: | 1478-0542 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: History compass
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/1478-0542.014 |
