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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Martyrology"”.
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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>
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The Manuscript Circulation and Use of Bede’s Martyrology and Religious Practice in Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Europe, to c. 1250
Bede’s Martyrology is the earliest known historical example of a calendrical list of martyrs, or martyrology, composed by Bede c. 725–731. All surviving manuscript copies are Continental and date to the ninth century or later. Historical martyrologies were popular in ninth-century Francia. Thus …
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Martyrological fulfilment: the process of reform in the publication of late sixteenth-century printed Italian martyrologies, c. 1568 - 1583
… martyrologies were printed in Italy based on the martyrology of Usuard. These martyrologies directly transcribed the majority of the entries in his martyrology, added their own eulogia and changed the title to identify it with the Romana Curia. This was done in an attempt to universalise the …
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Le martyre et le temps : Tieleman Jansz. van Braght, le martyrologe mennonite et l'histoire
In his martyrology (published in 1660), the conservative Dutch Mennonite Tieleman Jansz. van Braght propose an original interpretation of the Christian past. In order to put together a succession of witnesses, he examines one by one the ancient or medieval spiritual ancestors who, at the time, were …
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Agents of History: Women and Royal Politics in Early Modern Historical Narratives and Plays
… More and 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 …
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The Missionary Spirit of Gregory the Great as Evidenced by His Interest in the Angles
… forty monks, is Gregory described by the Roman Martyrology as he "who brought the English to the true Faith. "
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Heretics and Martyrs: Picturing Early Anabaptism in Visual Culture of the Dutch Republic
… advocated by leaders such as Menno Simons. Martyrology illustrations, beginning with frontispieces and culminating in depictions of specific events engraved by Jan Luyken for the Martyrs Mirror (1685), boldly aligned the suffering and executions of 16th-century Anabaptists with the martyrs …
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Retrieving the textual environment of the "Old English Bede": a digital remediation of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 41
… homilies, a fragment from the Old English Martyrology and an extract of the wisdom poem Solomon and Saturn as well as Latin charms, masses, prayers and offices for the liturgical season were added to the manuscript’s margins shortly after the composition of the central text. Although the …
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Memoirs of the Persecuted: Persecution, Memory, and the West as a Mormon Refuge
<p>The memory of past violence in Missouri and Illinois during the 1830s and 1840s shaped how members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Latter-day Saints or Mormons) saw themselves, their persecutors, and the states and the nation where the violence occurred. This thesis explores …