Though its historical range--which stretches from medieval passion drama to Milton's Eikonoklastes--is what most clearly distinguishes The English Martyr from other monographs on the subject, Dailey also has thoughtful things to say about the early modern period's central martyrology,
John Foxe's Actes and Monuments.
The writings of
John Foxe, Thomas Cooper, and Daniel Featley augment Shoulson's investigation of the ways in which texts interrogate religious transformation, especially in light of questions of authenticity.
James's classical references and gift for drama have him run afoul of colleague
John Foxe. Foxe also sailed in search of the northwest passage, and he criticized Strange and Dangerous Voyage for what he claimed to be James's tendency to overdramatize.
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John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of Matters Most Speciall and Memorable, Happenyng in the Church, with an Vniuersall History of the Same (London, 1583; STC: 11225), 720.
Tom Healy's study of Actes and Monuments, the ecclesiastical history penned by
John Foxe, focuses on how this text enacts remembrance among believers.
In the works of
John Foxe, Dailey identifies many continuities, despite the great man's explicit disavowal of the earlier tradition.
(In this chapter he is defending Robert Bolt's play against the condescension of modern historians to its secularizing liberalism.) Chapter 3 traces the difficult paradoxes of identity enacted by Thomas Cranmer's recantation, on the occasion of his martyrdom, of the previous recantation he had made in hopes of avoiding that occasion: which writing is the real Cranmer?; and treats as well the reverberation and reconstruction of this deed in
John Foxe's Book of Martyrs, where one begins perhaps to see a modern dissident Cranmer, persecuted for his ideological beliefs, through the public witness of the martyr.
What was the popular name given to a history of the church written by the 16th century cleric
John Foxe? 2.
In sport what do the initials ABA
John Foxe? represent?
Mary de Lode, draws primarily on The Acts and Monuments of
John Foxe (London: John Day, 1563) and seems to share his perspective.
This article will explore Luyken's engravings in relation to the visual contributions of preceding martyrologies, including
John Foxe's English Book of Martyrs, Richard Verstegan's Catholic Theatrum Crudelitatum Haereticorum, and, most importantly, the seventeenth-century editions of Adriaen van Haemstede's Calvinist Historie der Martelaren.