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Foxe, John
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Foxe, John (1516–87). Martyrologist. Born in Lincolnshire, educated at Oxford, he was fellow of Magdalen College (1539). Though, as an extreme protestant, he resigned in 1545, he was ordained deacon by Bishop
Ridley of London (1550) and was tutor (1547–53) to the children of the recently executed catholic earl of Surrey. One of these, for whom as 4th duke of
Norfolk he retained affection, he later attended on the scaffold (1572). After exile under Mary, he returned, was ordained priest in 1560, and, despite objecting to the surplice, became vicar of Shipton. Foxe's reputation rests principally on his
Actes and Monuments (Latin 1554, English 1563) or
Book of Martyrs, dedicated to Elizabeth, a best seller which reinforced the concept of England as God's elect nation. ‘A database for the justification of the Elizabethan ”godly” reformation’, it was based on massive, but unashamedly biased and often inaccurate protestant scholarship.
Revd Dr William M. Marshall
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John Foxe: An Historical Perspective.
Magazine article from: Church History; 12/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; John Foxe: An Historical Perspective. Edited by...years have passed since the inception of the John Foxe Project--a long-term plan to produce...volumes of articles by scholars in the field (John Foxe and the English Reformation [Aldershot...
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John Foxe and His World.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...derived from papers presented at "John Foxe and His World: An Interdisciplinary...University, 1999) and inspired by the John Foxe project, which aims to produce a...David Loades, preceded this one (John Foxe and the English Reformation, 1997...
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Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" and Early Modern Print Culture.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Foxe's "Book of Martyrs...Modern Print Culture by John N. King. Cambridge U...copies of nine editions of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments...King briefly addresses Foxe's connections to Henry Bull, John Day, and John Bale, crediting...
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John N. King. Foxe's Book of Martyrs and Early Modern Print Culture.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Seventeenth-Century News; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; John N. King. Foxe's Book of Martyrs and Early...history, and reception of John Foxe's Book of Martyrs, the...highlights the interaction Foxe had with other collaborators, such as John Aylmer, Henry Bull, and...
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John Foxe and His World
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; John Foxe and His World. Edited by Christopher Highley...composite portrait of the world inhabited by John Foxe" is an optimistic one. Rather, they represent...Benedict Scott Robinson's discussion of "John Foxe and the Anglo-Saxons," showing how the...
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"The same cause and like quarell": Eusebius, John Foxe, and the Evolution of Ecclesiastical History (1).
Magazine article from: Church History; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Elizabeth ascended to the throne, John Foxe published the first edition of his...beginning of the word "Constantine." Foxe writes: "Constantine the greate and...years" (1563 Pref. vi). (2) Thus Foxe immediately emphasizes the supposed...
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Christopher Highley and John N. King, eds. John Foxe and His World.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...over twenty-eight manuscripts. John Foxe and His World represents a recent...papers presented at a conference--"John Foxe and His World: An Interdisciplinary...attempt to recapture the world of John Foxe and thus demonstrate a common interest...
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Foxe's Book of Martyrs and Early Modern Print Culture.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...pp. $110.00 cloth. John Foxe's Acts and Monuments...and disseminated. In Foxe's Book of Martyrs and Early Modern Print Culture, John King thus endeavors to...chapter is the discussion of Foxe's printer, John Day, who exemplifies...
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"The Light of Printing": William Tyndale, John Foxe, John Day, and Early Modern Print Culture [*].
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; John Foxe, the martyologist, and John Day, the...William Tyndale, as documented and edited by John Foxe and collected and printed by John Day...Indeed, he and his earliest biographer, John Foxe, shared an intimate acquaintance with printing...
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Foxe's "Rook of Martyrs" and Early Modern Print Culture.(Inventing Polemic: Religion, Print, and Literary Culture in Early Modern England)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; Foxe's "Rook of Martyrs" and Early Modern Print Culture By John N. King Cambridge: Cambridge...proliferating, protean text of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, commonly...has been to the benefit of John Foxe, whose magnum opus is the...
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Foxe, John
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Foxe, John (1516–87), martyrologist. On Mary's accession, Foxe fled to the Continent. He wrote a history...the Church , commonly known as ‘Foxe's Book of Martyrs’. Its main...
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Foxe, Richard
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Foxe, Richard ( c. 1448–1528). Bishop and statesman. Foxe was born near Grantham and educated at Magdalen College...after gaining the throne as Henry VII, appointed Foxe bishop of Exeter, king's secretary, and lord privy...
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John Foxe
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
John Foxe 1516-87, English clergyman, author of...the persecution of Protestant reformers. Foxe moved to Basel and had published (1559...trustworthy. Bibliography: See J. F. Mozley, John Foxe and His Book (1940).
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Foxe's Martyrs
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Foxe's Martyrs informal name for Actes and Monuments , the martyrology by the Protestant divine John Foxe (1516–87). This passionate account of the persecution of English...
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Hagiography
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...brilliantly and influentially perhaps in John Calvin's Traict é des reliques...Crespin, Adriaen van Haemstede, and John Foxe. All of them attempted to make sense...interpretative template. In the case of Foxe (1516 – 1587), his first...
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