The John Foxe Project
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12732853 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Loades (British Academy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1478-0542 • E-ISSN: 1478-0542 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1478-0542.014 |
| OpenAlex | W1988726793 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The aim of this project is to publish a definitive four‐text edition of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments of the English Martyrs . Foxe issued his original work in four versions over twenty years (1563, 1570, 1576 and 1583), and before that two shorter Latin versions (1554, 1559). The end product was immensely influential in shaping that protestant English self‐consciousness which emerged in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and survived as part of the ’philosophy of Empire’ until the middle of the twnentieth century. John Bunyan and John Milton, as well as generations of church historians and political pamphleteers, acknowledged a debt of gratitude to Foxe. After the vernacular bible, the Acts and Monuments was probably the most influential book to appear in English during the sixteenth century
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| Highly cited | No |
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