Protestant Hagiography and Martyrology

Protestant Hagiography and Martyrology Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• The Holy Community and Bunyan and the Language of Martyrdom
• Criticism: John Foxe's Book Of Martyrs
  • John Foxe as Hagiographer: The Question Revisited
  • The Rhetoric of Martyrdom: Generic Contradiction and Narrative Strategy in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments
  • John Foxe and the Joy of Suffering
  • Truth, Lies, and Fiction in Sixteenth-century Protestant Historiography
  • The Peopled Page: Polemic, Confutation, and Foxe's Book of Martyrs.
  • Foxe's Acts and Monuments: The Spirit's Triumph over the Flesh
• Criticism: Martyrology And The Feminine Perspective
  • The Emergence of a Feminine Spirituality in The Book of Martyrs
  • Representation of Women in Tudor Historiography: John Bale and the Rhetoric of Exemplarity
• Further Reading