Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture write by John N. King. This book was released on 2006-10-12. Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book was first published in 2006. Second only to the Bible and Book of Common Prayer, John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, known as the Book of Martyrs, was the most influential book published in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The most complex and best-illustrated English book of its time, it recounted in detail the experiences of hundreds of people who were burned alive for their religious beliefs. John N. King offers the most comprehensive investigation yet of the compilation, printing, publication, illustration, and reception of the Book of Martyrs. He charts its reception across different editions by learned and unlearned, sympathetic and antagonistic readers. The many illustrations included here introduce readers to the visual features of early printed books and general printing practices both in England and continental Europe, and enhance this important contribution to early modern literary studies, cultural and religious history, and the history of the Book.
Foxe's Book of Martyrs
Foxe's Book of Martyrs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foxe's Book of Martyrs write by John Foxe. This book was released on 1899. Foxe's Book of Martyrs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Foxe's Book of Martyrs
Foxe's Book of Martyrs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foxe's Book of Martyrs write by John Foxe. This book was released on 2009-03-12. Foxe's Book of Martyrs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Foxe's Book of Martyrs is a collection of unforgettable accounts of religious persecution. This modernized selection brings together some of the most stirring tales of the interrogation and execution of heretics burnt at the stake in the reign of Mary, with some of the original woodcut illustrations and an illuminating introduction.
Religion and the Book in Early Modern England
Religion and the Book in Early Modern England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and the Book in Early Modern England write by Elizabeth Evenden. This book was released on 2011-07-14. Religion and the Book in Early Modern England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the production of John Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs', a milestone in the history of the English book.
Epic, Epitome, and the Early Modern Historical Imagination
Epic, Epitome, and the Early Modern Historical Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Epic, Epitome, and the Early Modern Historical Imagination write by Dr Chloe Wheatley. This book was released on 2013-05-28. Epic, Epitome, and the Early Modern Historical Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In early modern England, epitomes-texts promising to pare down, abridge, or sum up the essence of their authoritative sources-provided readers with key historical knowledge without the bulk, expense, or time commitment demanded by greater volumes. Epic poets in turn addressed the habits of reading and thinking that, for better and for worse, were popularized by the publication of predigested works. Analyzing popular texts such as chronicle summaries, abridgements of sacred epic, and abstracts of civil war debate, Chloe Wheatley charts the efflorescence of a lively early modern epitome culture, and demonstrates its impact upon Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Abraham Cowley's Davideis, and John Milton's Paradise Lost. Clearly and elegantly written, this new study presents fresh insight into how poets adapted an important epic convention-the representation of the hero's confrontation with summaries of past and future-to reflect contemporary trends in early modern history writing.
