Christopher Highley - John Foxe and his World

John Foxe and his World

Edited by
Christopher Highley and
John N. King

First published 2002 by Ashgate Publishing

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

John Foxe and his World.
(St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History)
1. Foxe, John, 151687, Book of Martyrs . 2. Christian
literature, EnglishHistory and criticism. 3. English
literatureEarly modern, 15001700History and
criticism. 4. Literature and societyEnglandHistory
16th century.
I. Highley, Christopher. II. King, John N., 1945 .
820.9382309031

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

John Foxe and his world/edited by Christopher Highley and
John N. King.
p. cm. (St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0754603067 (alk. paper)
1. Foxe, John, 151687Congresses. 2. England
Church history16th centuryCongresses. I. Highley,
Christopher. II. King, John N., 1945 . III. Series.
BX5199.F62 J635 2001
272.6092dc21 2001032808

Typeset in Sabon by Manton Typesetters, Louth, Lincolnshire, UK.

ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-0306-1 (hbk)

St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History

Editorial Board: Bruce Gordon, Andrew Pettegree and John Guy, St Andrews Reformation Studies Institute, Amy Nelson Burnett, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Euan Cameron, University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Kaspar von Greyerz, University of Basel

The Shaping of a Community: The Rise and Reformation of the English Parish c. 1400-1560
Beat Kmin

Seminary or University? The Genevan Academy and Reformed Higher Education, 1560-1620
Karin Maag

Marian Protestantism: Six Studies
Andrew Pettegree

Protestant History and Identity in Sixteenth-Century Europe
(2 volumes) edited by Bruce Gordon

Antifraternalism and Anticlericalism in the German Reformation: Johann Eberlin von Gnzburg and the Campaign against the Friars
Geoffrey Dipple

Reformations Old and New: Essays on the Socio-Economic Impact of Religious Change c. 1470-1630
edited by Beat Kmin

Piety and the People: Religious Printing in French, 1511-1551
Francis M. Higman

The Reformation in Eastern and Central Europe
edited by Karin Maag

John Foxe and the English Reformation
edited by David Loades

The Reformation and the Book
Jean-Franois Gilmont, edited and translated by Karin Maag

The Magnificent Ride: The First Reformation in Hussite Bohemia
Thomas A. Fudge

Kepler's Tbingen: Stimulus to a Theological Mathematics
Charlotte Methuen

'Practical Divinity': The Works and Life of Revd Richard Greenham
Kenneth L. Parker and Eric J. Carlson

Belief and Practice in Reformation England: A Tribute to Patrick Collinson by his Students
edited by Susan Wabuda and Caroline Litzenberger

Frontiers of the Reformation: Dissidence and Orthodoxy in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Auke Jelsma

The Jacobean Kirk, 1567-1625: Sovereignty, Polity and Liturgy
Alan R. MacDonald

John Knox and the British Reformations
edited by Roger A. Mason

The Education of a Christian Society: Humanism and the Reformation in Britain and the Netherlands
edited by N. Scott Amos, Andrew Pettegree and Henk van Nierop

Tudor Histories of the English Reformations, 1530-83
Thomas Betteridge

Poor Relief and Protestantism: The Evolution of Social Welfare in Sixteenth-Century Emden
Timothy G. Fehler

Radical Reformation Studies: Essays presented to James M. Stayer
edited by Werner O. Packull and Geoffrey L. Dipple

Clerical Marriage and the English Reformation: Precedent Policy and Practice
Helen L. Parish

Penitence in the Age of Reformations
edited by Katharine Jackson Lualdi and Anne T. Thayer

The Faith and Fortunes of France's Huguenots, 1600-85
Philip Benedict

Christianity and Community in the West: Essays for John Bossy
edited by Simon Ditchfield

Reformation, Politics and Polemics: The Growth of Protestantism in East Anglian Market Towns, 1500-1610
John Craig

The Sixteenth-Century French Religious Book
edited by Andrew Pettegree, Paul Nelles and Philip Conner

Music as Propaganda in the German Reformation
Rebecca Wagner Oettinger

This collection of chapters grows out of "John Foxe and His World: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium," which met at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, 29 April to 2 May 1999. It was organized by Christopher Highley, John N. King and Geoffrey Parker. We are grateful for the generous support from the Departments of English, History, and Spanish and Portuguese, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Center for West European Studies, Division of Comparative Studies, University Libraries, and College of Humanities of The Ohio State University. A sequel to gatherings at Cambridge University in 1995 and Oxford University in 1997, it was the Third International John Foxe Colloquium. These conferences were all inspired by the current project to edit a critical edition of Foxe's Acts and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days, which proceeds under the general editorship of David Loades and with generous funding supplied by the British Academy and Arts and Humanities Research Board.

Coincident with this conference, James K. Bracken organized a special exhibition of John Foxe materials at The Ohio State University Libraries. Housing the largest collection of its kind outside of the United Kingdom, our Rare Book Room is one of only four libraries in the entire world where researchers may study multiple copies of each of the first nine editions of Foxe's Book of Martyrs, the popular title of Acts and Monuments, side by side. Professor Bracken prepared an exhibit catalogue entitled "Come Ye Blessed, Go Ye Cursed": The World of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, Also Known as The Book of Martyrs (Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Libraries, 1999).

"John Foxe and His World: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium" attracted more than 150 scholars from locations around the world, including the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Wales, New Zealand, and Japan. It featured six plenary lectures, more than 75 papers delivered in 25 sessions, panel discussions, readings, audio-visual displays, and a demonstration of a prototype of the first fruit of the John Foxe project, the CD-ROM facsimile edition of Acts and Monuments (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). Because the majority of conference presentations represented publishable scholarship, the editors have faced a difficult task, one complicated by limitations on length and other constraints, in selecting the 18 essays published in John Foxe and his World. Edited on one side of the Atlantic Ocean and published on the other, chapters in the volume are written by scholars on both sides. All of the chapters share a common interest in historical investigation, meticulous textual scholarship, and editorial issues of the kind that motivate the present Foxe project. As a whole, they create a composite portrait of the world inhabited by John Foxe.