Thomas S Freeman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1594763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas S Freeman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas S |
| FAMILY NAME | Freeman |
| SIGNATURE | FREEMAN T S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1947 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
And All That: Gregory VII in Reformation historical writing
From the late Middle Ages onwards, the reputation of Pope Gregory VII (r. 1073–85) was hotly debated. Lionized during the Catholic Reformation, the controversial pope was also the target of strident polemic from conciliarists, German humanists and then, most intensely, from Protestants. This essay focuses on the development of polemic against Gregory by Lutherans and English Protestants. Important contemporary sources against Gregory were unearth…
Biography and History in Film
Martyrologists without Boundaries: The Collaboration of John Foxe and Heinrich Pantaleon
Amid the great Protestant martyrologies of the mid-sixteenth century, Heinrich Pantaleon's Martyrvm historia (1563) has been comparatively overlooked. This article argues that Pantaleon's martyrology acted as a capstone to the narrative framework of Protestant suffering and resistance. Pantaleon's command of vernacular languages gave him access to a wider range of material than other martyrologists, material which his Latin text made accessible t…
Restoration and Reaction: Reinterpreting the Marian Church
Although the reign of Mary i (1553–8) was a tumultuous and eventful one, for over four hundred years there was little debate about it or about the queen's efforts to restore Catholicism to England. The reign was almost universally perceived as poor, nasty, brutish and short-lived and the restoration of Catholicism was believed to have been doomed to failure, both because the burning of heretics offended English sensibilities and because Protestan…
Henry VIII and History
Contents: Introduction: all is true - Henry VIII in and out of history, Thomas Betteridge and Thomas S. Freeman Harry's peregrinations: an Italianate defence of Henry VIII, Brett Foster From perfect prince to 'wise and pollitike' king: Henry VIII in Edward Hall's chronicle, Scott Lucas 'It is perilous stryvinge withe princes': Henry VIII in works by Pole, Roper and Harpsfield, Carolyn Colbert Hands defiled with blood: Henry VIII in Foxe's Book of…
Through a Venice Glass Darkly: John Foxe’s Most Famous Miracle
On New Year’s Day, 1578, Sir John Langley, a wealthy alderman of the City of London, lay dying. Present at his deathbed were three of the most eminent preachers in the capital: Robert Crowley, who held four London livings, Alexander Nowell, the dean of St Paul’s cathedral and John Foxe, the martyrologist. As Langley’s life ebbed away, Foxe went up to the dying man and ‘used both godly councell unto him and some devote prayers’. Since Langley coul…
Offending God: John Foxe and English Protestant Reactions to the Cult of the Virgin Mary
On 20 January 1574, at about 7.00 p.m., Alexander Nyndge, one of the sons of William Nyndge, a gentleman of Herringwell, Suffolk, suddenly went into violent paroxysms. Edward Nyndge, Alexander’s brother, intervened. Edward was a Cambridge graduate and a former fellow of Gonville and Caius, and his University education had apparently prepared him for just such an emergency. He immediately declared that Alexander was possessed by an evil spirit and…
The Myth of Elizabeth
Elizabeth I is one of England's most admired and celebrated rulers. She is also one of its most iconic: her image is familiar from paintings, film and television. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary c
Racking the Body, Shaping the Text: "The Account of Anne Askew in Foxe's "Book of Martyrs
Current scholarship on Anne Askew has tended to disparage the editorial tactics of John Bale, her first editor, as intrusive and distorting. In contrast, the reprinting of her text by John Foxe, in his “Book of Martyrs, “ has been commended for its lack of editorial intervention. Yet afresh consideration of Foxes work with Askew's narrative suggests that Foxe's shaping force in the text was as strong as Bale's, if more subtle. Furthermore, attemp…
Early Modern Martyrs
Inspired by the example of Henry Walpole, an English Jesuit martyr (who had himself been converted by the example of Edmund Campion), Dona Luisa de Carvajal journeyed from her native Spain to preach the gospel in England. Martyrdom eluded her, but she was repeatedly arrested and died while awaiting repatriation to Spain. Julius Palmer, a Catholic student at Oxford, converted to Protestantism after learning the details of the martyrdoms of Ridley …
The Good Ministrye of Godlye and Vertuouse Women”: The Elizabethan Martyrologists and the Female Supporters of the Marian Martyrs
The images that the phrase “Marian Protestant” summons to mind are both dramatic and predictable. Whether they are of Cranmer holding his hand in the flame, Latimer exhorting Ridley to play the man, or more generalized images of men and women dying at the stake, we see the landscape of Marian Protestantism shrouded in the smoke from the fires of Smithfield and think of it exclusively in terms of martyrs. This unblinking fixation on the Marian mar…
Fate, Faction, and Fiction in Foxe's Book of Martyrs
The tales of divine judgements on sinners which are found throughout John Foxe's famous martyrology, the Acts and monuments , and also collected in a concluding appendix to the work, have often been dismissed as the products of gossip, while Foxe's printing of them has been traditionally regarded as an idiosyncratic, but ultimately insignificant, aberration in his historical writing. After examining the sources for two of these stories of provide…
Texts, Lies, and Microfilm: "Reading and Misreading Foxe's "Book of Martyrs
Despite the universally acknowledged importance of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments (popularly known as the Book of Martyrs), the actual text of any of the original editions of it remains largely unknown even to scholars. This is because many scholars continue to rely not on the original editions but on the more accessible unabridged Victorian editions of Foxe's book.Yet these nineteenth-century editions seriously distort Foxe's texts by concealing…
The importance of dying earnestly: The metamorphosis of the account of James Bainham in ‘Foxe’s Book of Martyrs ’
Readers of the second edition of John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments , or any of the subsequent editions of that massive history of the persecutions inflicted on the Church, popularly known as ‘Foxe’s Book of Martyrs’, would have found a coherent, lucid description, filled with circumstantial and often dramatic details, of the ordeals of James Bainham. According to this account, James Bainham, a member of the Middle Temple and the son of a Gloucesters…
The Reformation of the Church in this Parliament’: Thomas Norton, John Foxe and the Parliament of 1571
"The reik of Maister Patrik Hammyltoun": John Foxe, John Winram, and the Martyrs of the Scottish Reformation
Les Acts and Monuments de John Foxe constituent une source importante pour l'etude des martyrs protestants ecossais. Bien que l'ouvrage soit un temoignage indispensable, Foxe n'a jamais visite l'Ecosse. L'A. cherche a savoir ou et quand Foxe a reuni les sources qui lui ont permis de bâtir son travail. Il semble que ce soit John Winram qui ait ete l'informateur de Foxe. Winram a participe aux proces des reformes ecossais et c'est un des leaders de…
A grave and heinous incident against our holy Catholic Faith: Two Accounts of William Gardiner's Desecration of the Portuguese Royal Chapel in 1552
Thomas S. Freeman, Marcelo J. Borges; ‘A grave and heinous incident against our holy Catholic Faith’: Two Accounts of William Gardiner's Desecration of the
Research, rumour and propaganda: Anne Boleyn in Foxe's ‘Book of Martyrs’
Recent scholarship has questioned the accuracy of John Foxe's depiction of Anne Boleyn as an evangelical and a patron of reformers. It has even been suggested that Foxe exaggerated or invented the material he presented on the evangelical zeal of Henry VIII's second queen. A thorough examination of Foxe's sources, however, reveals that he based his account of Anne on material ultimately derived from those who knew her or had benefited from her sup…
Notes on a Source for John Foxe's Account of the Marian Persecution in Kent and Sussex
Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter: An Inquiry into the Effects of Violence in Children's Literature
The Cowboy and The Astronaut — The American Image in German Periodical Advertisements
Ben Jonson, Vol. 8: The Poems; The Prose Works: The Poems; The Prose Works
Fate, Faction, and Fiction in Foxe's Book of Martyrs
The tales of divine judgements on sinners which are found throughout John Foxe's famous martyrology, the Acts and monuments , and also collected in a concluding appendix to the work, have often been dismissed as the products of gossip, while Foxe's printing of them has been traditionally regarded as an idiosyncratic, but ultimately insignificant, aberration in his historical writing. After examining the sources for two of these stories of provide…
Research, rumour and propaganda: Anne Boleyn in Foxe's ‘Book of Martyrs’
Recent scholarship has questioned the accuracy of John Foxe's depiction of Anne Boleyn as an evangelical and a patron of reformers. It has even been suggested that Foxe exaggerated or invented the material he presented on the evangelical zeal of Henry VIII's second queen. A thorough examination of Foxe's sources, however, reveals that he based his account of Anne on material ultimately derived from those who knew her or had benefited from her sup…
Racking the Body, Shaping the Text: "The Account of Anne Askew in Foxe's "Book of Martyrs
Current scholarship on Anne Askew has tended to disparage the editorial tactics of John Bale, her first editor, as intrusive and distorting. In contrast, the reprinting of her text by John Foxe, in his “Book of Martyrs, “ has been commended for its lack of editorial intervention. Yet afresh consideration of Foxes work with Askew's narrative suggests that Foxe's shaping force in the text was as strong as Bale's, if more subtle. Furthermore, attemp…
The Good Ministrye of Godlye and Vertuouse Women”: The Elizabethan Martyrologists and the Female Supporters of the Marian Martyrs
The images that the phrase “Marian Protestant” summons to mind are both dramatic and predictable. Whether they are of Cranmer holding his hand in the flame, Latimer exhorting Ridley to play the man, or more generalized images of men and women dying at the stake, we see the landscape of Marian Protestantism shrouded in the smoke from the fires of Smithfield and think of it exclusively in terms of martyrs. This unblinking fixation on the Marian mar…
Notes on a Source for John Foxe's Account of the Marian Persecution in Kent and Sussex
The Cowboy and The Astronaut — The American Image in German Periodical Advertisements
Ben Jonson, Vol. 8: The Poems; The Prose Works: The Poems; The Prose Works
The Cowboy and The Astronaut — The American Image in German Periodical Advertisements
Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter: An Inquiry into the Effects of Violence in Children's Literature
Notes on a Source for John Foxe's Account of the Marian Persecution in Kent and Sussex
Research, rumour and propaganda: Anne Boleyn in Foxe's ‘Book of Martyrs’
Recent scholarship has questioned the accuracy of John Foxe's depiction of Anne Boleyn as an evangelical and a patron of reformers. It has even been suggested that Foxe exaggerated or invented the material he presented on the evangelical zeal of Henry VIII's second queen. A thorough examination of Foxe's sources, however, reveals that he based his account of Anne on material ultimately derived from those who knew her or had benefited from her sup…
"The reik of Maister Patrik Hammyltoun": John Foxe, John Winram, and the Martyrs of the Scottish Reformation
Les Acts and Monuments de John Foxe constituent une source importante pour l'etude des martyrs protestants ecossais. Bien que l'ouvrage soit un temoignage indispensable, Foxe n'a jamais visite l'Ecosse. L'A. cherche a savoir ou et quand Foxe a reuni les sources qui lui ont permis de bâtir son travail. Il semble que ce soit John Winram qui ait ete l'informateur de Foxe. Winram a participe aux proces des reformes ecossais et c'est un des leaders de…
A grave and heinous incident against our holy Catholic Faith: Two Accounts of William Gardiner's Desecration of the Portuguese Royal Chapel in 1552
Thomas S. Freeman, Marcelo J. Borges; ‘A grave and heinous incident against our holy Catholic Faith’: Two Accounts of William Gardiner's Desecration of the
The importance of dying earnestly: The metamorphosis of the account of James Bainham in ‘Foxe’s Book of Martyrs ’
Readers of the second edition of John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments , or any of the subsequent editions of that massive history of the persecutions inflicted on the Church, popularly known as ‘Foxe’s Book of Martyrs’, would have found a coherent, lucid description, filled with circumstantial and often dramatic details, of the ordeals of James Bainham. According to this account, James Bainham, a member of the Middle Temple and the son of a Gloucesters…
The Reformation of the Church in this Parliament’: Thomas Norton, John Foxe and the Parliament of 1571
Texts, Lies, and Microfilm: "Reading and Misreading Foxe's "Book of Martyrs
Despite the universally acknowledged importance of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments (popularly known as the Book of Martyrs), the actual text of any of the original editions of it remains largely unknown even to scholars. This is because many scholars continue to rely not on the original editions but on the more accessible unabridged Victorian editions of Foxe's book.Yet these nineteenth-century editions seriously distort Foxe's texts by concealing…
The Good Ministrye of Godlye and Vertuouse Women”: The Elizabethan Martyrologists and the Female Supporters of the Marian Martyrs
The images that the phrase “Marian Protestant” summons to mind are both dramatic and predictable. Whether they are of Cranmer holding his hand in the flame, Latimer exhorting Ridley to play the man, or more generalized images of men and women dying at the stake, we see the landscape of Marian Protestantism shrouded in the smoke from the fires of Smithfield and think of it exclusively in terms of martyrs. This unblinking fixation on the Marian mar…
Fate, Faction, and Fiction in Foxe's Book of Martyrs
The tales of divine judgements on sinners which are found throughout John Foxe's famous martyrology, the Acts and monuments , and also collected in a concluding appendix to the work, have often been dismissed as the products of gossip, while Foxe's printing of them has been traditionally regarded as an idiosyncratic, but ultimately insignificant, aberration in his historical writing. After examining the sources for two of these stories of provide…
Racking the Body, Shaping the Text: "The Account of Anne Askew in Foxe's "Book of Martyrs
Current scholarship on Anne Askew has tended to disparage the editorial tactics of John Bale, her first editor, as intrusive and distorting. In contrast, the reprinting of her text by John Foxe, in his “Book of Martyrs, “ has been commended for its lack of editorial intervention. Yet afresh consideration of Foxes work with Askew's narrative suggests that Foxe's shaping force in the text was as strong as Bale's, if more subtle. Furthermore, attemp…
Early Modern Martyrs
Inspired by the example of Henry Walpole, an English Jesuit martyr (who had himself been converted by the example of Edmund Campion), Dona Luisa de Carvajal journeyed from her native Spain to preach the gospel in England. Martyrdom eluded her, but she was repeatedly arrested and died while awaiting repatriation to Spain. Julius Palmer, a Catholic student at Oxford, converted to Protestantism after learning the details of the martyrdoms of Ridley …
The Myth of Elizabeth
Elizabeth I is one of England's most admired and celebrated rulers. She is also one of its most iconic: her image is familiar from paintings, film and television. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary c
Offending God: John Foxe and English Protestant Reactions to the Cult of the Virgin Mary
On 20 January 1574, at about 7.00 p.m., Alexander Nyndge, one of the sons of William Nyndge, a gentleman of Herringwell, Suffolk, suddenly went into violent paroxysms. Edward Nyndge, Alexander’s brother, intervened. Edward was a Cambridge graduate and a former fellow of Gonville and Caius, and his University education had apparently prepared him for just such an emergency. He immediately declared that Alexander was possessed by an evil spirit and…
Through a Venice Glass Darkly: John Foxe’s Most Famous Miracle
On New Year’s Day, 1578, Sir John Langley, a wealthy alderman of the City of London, lay dying. Present at his deathbed were three of the most eminent preachers in the capital: Robert Crowley, who held four London livings, Alexander Nowell, the dean of St Paul’s cathedral and John Foxe, the martyrologist. As Langley’s life ebbed away, Foxe went up to the dying man and ‘used both godly councell unto him and some devote prayers’. Since Langley coul…
Henry VIII and History
Contents: Introduction: all is true - Henry VIII in and out of history, Thomas Betteridge and Thomas S. Freeman Harry's peregrinations: an Italianate defence of Henry VIII, Brett Foster From perfect prince to 'wise and pollitike' king: Henry VIII in Edward Hall's chronicle, Scott Lucas 'It is perilous stryvinge withe princes': Henry VIII in works by Pole, Roper and Harpsfield, Carolyn Colbert Hands defiled with blood: Henry VIII in Foxe's Book of…
Restoration and Reaction: Reinterpreting the Marian Church
Although the reign of Mary i (1553–8) was a tumultuous and eventful one, for over four hundred years there was little debate about it or about the queen's efforts to restore Catholicism to England. The reign was almost universally perceived as poor, nasty, brutish and short-lived and the restoration of Catholicism was believed to have been doomed to failure, both because the burning of heretics offended English sensibilities and because Protestan…
Martyrologists without Boundaries: The Collaboration of John Foxe and Heinrich Pantaleon
Amid the great Protestant martyrologies of the mid-sixteenth century, Heinrich Pantaleon's Martyrvm historia (1563) has been comparatively overlooked. This article argues that Pantaleon's martyrology acted as a capstone to the narrative framework of Protestant suffering and resistance. Pantaleon's command of vernacular languages gave him access to a wider range of material than other martyrologists, material which his Latin text made accessible t…
Biography and History in Film
And All That: Gregory VII in Reformation historical writing
From the late Middle Ages onwards, the reputation of Pope Gregory VII (r. 1073–85) was hotly debated. Lionized during the Catholic Reformation, the controversial pope was also the target of strident polemic from conciliarists, German humanists and then, most intensely, from Protestants. This essay focuses on the development of polemic against Gregory by Lutherans and English Protestants. Important contemporary sources against Gregory were unearth…
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