Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"John Foxe"”.
-
Agents of History: Women and Royal Politics in Early Modern Historical Narratives and Plays
… Francis Bacon, and the Protestant martyrology of John Foxe, to the canonical Shakespearean works and lesser-known dramas that comprised the history play genre, most popular in the 1590s but written as late as the 1630s. Unlike previous literary critics who view historical narratives primarily as …
-
Tudor Conciliar Theorists
… by her father's propagandists. Such men as John Bale, John Jewel, Thomas Cartwright, John Foxe, William Whitaker, and John Whitgift followed the system of ideas that was developed in the 1530's.</p> <p>English translations of European writers, (which provide sure evidence of someone in …
-
A Rebellious Spirit: A Study of Women in John Foxe’s Martyrology
<p>An examination of the female martyrs presented in The Acts and Monuments.</p>
-
Sacrificial Acts: Martyrdom and Nationhood in Seventeenth-Century Drama
… narratives from early modern editions of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments to the execution of the Royal Martyr, Charles I. Specifically, I contend that seventeenth-century plays shaped the secularization of martyrdom in profound ways by staging the sacrificial suffering and deaths of female …
-
Blood and Fire: The Inquisition of Mary Tudor, 1555-1558
Infamously, during the reign of Mary Tudor (1553 to 1558) a terrible persecution occurred in which the government executed 283 Protestants for the crime of heresy. The Crown adopted these harsh polices in order to preserve the royal regime. As heresy became synonymous with sedition, Queen Mary's …
-
Suffering and the early modern imagination, 1570-1671
… detailing the redemptive qualities of pain with John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs in 1570, the thesis goes on to trace how the poetry and drama of the ensuing century participate in expanding the availability of meanings for pain, culminating with a consideration of the critique of assigning any …