‘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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Main Author: Isabelle Fernandes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAES 2020-04-01
Series:Angles
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/angles/299
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