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"Traditionally, Christian martyrdom is a repetition of the story of Christ{u2019}s suffering and death: the more closely the victim replicates the Christological model, the more legible the martyrdom. But if the textual construction of martyrdom depends on the rehearsal of a paradigmatic story, how do we reconcile the broad range of individuals, beliefs, and persecutions seeking justification by claims of martyrdom? Observing how martyrdom is constituted through the interplay of historical event and literary form, Alice Dailey explores the development of English martyr literature through the period of intense religious controversy from the heresy executions of Queen Mary to the regicide of 1649. Through close study of texts ranging from late medieval passion drama and hagiography to John Foxe{u2019}s Acts and Monuments, martyrologies of the Counter-Reformation, Charles I{u2019}s Eikon Basilike, and John Milton{u2019}s Eikonoklastes, The English Martyr from Reformation to Revolution traces the shifting constructions of the martyr figure across Reformation England. By putting history and literary form in dialogue, Dailey describes not only the reformation of one of the oldest, most i

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Author

Alice Dailey

Publisher

University of Notre Dame Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780268026127

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Christian, Literary Criticism