‘The deformed imp of the devil’: John Foxe and the Protestant fashioning of the Catholic enemy
John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments (first English edition 1563) played a seminal role in the fashioning of a Protestant national identity. The nearly 300 victims who were burnt at the stake during the Marian Catholic years (1553-1558) were transformed in the crucible of the Foxeian narratives into heroe...
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2020-04-01
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