scholarly journals Martyrologists without Boundaries: The Collaboration of John Foxe and Heinrich Pantaleon

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 746-767 ◽  
Author(s):  
THOMAS S. FREEMAN ◽  
DAVID SCOTT GEHRING
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Latin Text ◽  
John Foxe ◽  
Narrative Framework ◽  
Acts And Monuments

Amid the great Protestant martyrologies of the mid-sixteenth century, Heinrich Pantaleon's Martyrvm historia (1563) has been comparatively overlooked. This article argues that Pantaleon's martyrology acted as a capstone to the narrative framework of Protestant suffering and resistance. Pantaleon's command of vernacular languages gave him access to a wider range of material than other martyrologists, material which his Latin text made accessible to learned readers across Europe. This article also examines the collaboration between Pantaleon and John Foxe, which directly inspired Pantaleon's martyrology and enabled Foxe to give a cohesive, trans-European account of Protestant martyrs in his Acts and monuments.

John Foxe and some Sources for Lollard History: Notes for a Critical Appraisal

1965 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 251-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. F. Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Source Material ◽  
John Foxe ◽  
Careful Scrutiny ◽  
History Of ◽  
Acts And Monuments

Of all the early but non-contemporary works which throw light on the history of Lollardy, the Acts and Monuments of John Foxe is undoubtedly the most important. Although it contains many tendentious comments, the products of an age when religious passions burned fiercely, comments which are of greater value to the historian of sixteenth-century propaganda than to the student of fifteenth-century heresy, it would be unwise to reject its source-value on these grounds. Besides Foxe’s comments, it also contains material, sometimes no longer extant in other records, which Foxe claimed to draw from the original accounts of the heresy trials, and, for the early sixteenth century, memories of observers, and it is some of this material which I wish to consider today. Because Foxe is noted as a propagandist, his reliability has sometimes been questioned, so the first task of the historian is to subject his excerpts from documents and his other source-material to a more than usually careful scrutiny. In cases where the original sources are still extant, these can be used to reach some estimate of his accuracy in general; in cases where they are not, other records can sometimes serve as a cross-check.

Through Several Glasses Darkly: Historical and Sectarian Perceptions of the Tudor Church

Tudorism ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
PATRICK COLLINSON
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Oxford Movement ◽  
John Foxe ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church ◽  
Acts And Monuments

This chapter surveys the perceptions of the Tudor Church since the sixteenth century. It argues that the history of the Tudor Church has been punctuated, bisected, fractured, and forever complicated by the Reformation, which meant different things to different people. One of the visions of the Tudor Church seen through very dark if rose-tinted glass was that enjoyed by Anglicans in the century or so following the recatholicising Oxford Movement of the 1830s and 1840s. In this perspective, what happened to the Tudors was sensible and non-revolutionary. The Anglo‐Catholic version of the Tudor Church was a reaction against the story of British Christianity which had been told between the 1560s and 1580s by John Foxe in Acts and Monuments of the Church, or its more familiar title, ‘The Book of Martyrs’.

An “Epistolary Reformation”

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Greengrass
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Protestant Reformation ◽  
The Political ◽  
John Foxe ◽  
Political Evolution ◽  
Letter Exchange

Letter exchange occupies a significant and growing role in the activities of the Protestant Reformers. This chapter offers explanations for its growing significance in the evolution of the Protestant Reformation. It analyses what over a century of investment in editing the correspondence of the magisterial Reformers has achieved. It offers a yearly profile of the surviving editorial correspondence. At the same time, it underlines the limitations of our concentration on the letters of magisterial Reformers by examining the role of letter exchange in the political evolution of the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century, and especially in the context of the coalitions at a distance that sustained it. It ends by evoking martyr letters, as found in the martyrologies of John Foxe and Jean Crespin, but also in a devotional context in Hutterite and Anabaptist dissenting traditions.

Una lauda e uno scongiuro da un registro dell’Archivio di Stato di Udine

2018 ◽  
Vol 134 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-196
Author(s):  
Gabriele Zanello
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Latin Text ◽  
Place Of Birth ◽  
Short List ◽  
Traditional Beliefs ◽  
Late Fifteenth ◽  
The City

AbstractGiovanni Antonio Battaglia was a notary and a secular priest of the diocese of Aquileia. He was active between the late fifteenth and the first four decades of the sixteenth century in Gemona, his place of birth, in the castle of Porcia and the city of Udine. A register he compiled (Udine, Archivio notarile antico, n. 2247), contains two documents which are worthy of attention. The first one is a funeral lauda in Italian vernacular which completes the rather short list of the religious laude repertoire of the Friulian region between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The second document is the text Dolce Regina, dona la tua pace. This work can be placed within the framework of the brotherhoods of the Battuti, which Battaglia served as a priest and as a teacher. A rather composite Latin text also appears on the same page of the notarial register. It includes an invocation to the Magi, a quote from the Scriptures and an adapted liturgical oration. The presence of this exorcism, unusual if compared to the local context of traditional beliefs and therapeutic practices, requires wide-ranging comparisons. The figure of Battaglia himself also deserves further analysis especially in order to understand his cultural background as well as clarifying his relationship with the humanists whom he was corresponding with.

Five Italian Occurrences of Umanista, 1540-1574

1967 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul P. Grendler
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Latin Text ◽  
Short Article ◽  
Repeated Use ◽  
The University ◽  
Printed Sources

Despite the repeated use of the term ‘humanist’ by modern scholars, few references to the term have been located in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Campana has found nine Itahan uses of the term in manuscript and printed sources from 1512 to 1588. In addition he has noted two sixteenth-century French uses, one English reference, and four appearances in the Latin text of the Epistolae ohscurorum virorum. Paul O. Kristeller has located the word in a letter of 1490 by the rector of the University of Pisa, in sixteenth-century university documents of Bologna and Ferrara, in John Florio's Italian-English dictionary of 1598, and in a Spanish document of the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century. Eugenio Garin adds an example from a document of the Studio di Pisa of 1525. This short article will contribute five additional vernacular uses oiumanista in Italy between 1540 and 1574.

Who Wrote ‘The Supper of the Lord’?

1960 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. D. J. Cargill Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
English Reformation ◽  
John Foxe

The Short-Title Catalogue includes in its list of Tyndale's works a pamphlet called ‘The Supper of the Lord,’ which was originally published anonymously on the continent in 1533, under the fictitious imprint of Nicholas Twonson of Nuremberg. But there are serious objections against accepting Tyndale's authorship. Although the pamphlet was reprinted several times during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI, it did not finally appear under Tyndale's name until 1573, when John Foxe included it in his edition of the works of Tyndale, Frith and Barnes. During the sixteenth century it was widely believed that ‘The Supper of the Lord’ was the work of George Joye, one of the lesser figures of the English reformation who is now largely forgotten. But although the weight of the evidence seems to support this belief, the glamor of Tyndale's name has prevented the question from being investigated properly.

“The same cause and like quarell”: Eusebius, John Foxe, and the Evolution of Ecclesiastical History

2002 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 715-742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gretchen E. Minton
Keyword(s):  
John Foxe ◽  
Ecclesiastical History ◽  
Popular Work ◽  
The Church ◽  
Acts And Monuments

In 1563, just five years after Elizabeth ascended to the throne, John Foxe published the first edition of his Acts and Monuments. Part ecclesiastical history, part martyrology, part English chronicle, and entirely Protestant, this enormously popular work had a significant impact upon its age. The dedicatory letter to the Queen in this first edition begins with an elaborate woodcut of the letter C, in which Elizabeth sits enthroned. [See Figure 1.] This C is the beginning of the word “Constantine.” Foxe writes: “Constantine the greate and mightie Emperour, the sonne of Helene an Englyshe woman of this youre Realme and countrie (moste Christian and renowned Pryncesse Queene Elizabeth) … pacified and established the churche of Christ, being long before under persecution almost … 400 years” (1563 Pref. vi). Thus Foxe immediately emphasizes the supposed Englishness of Constantine and builds upon this link between Rome and Britain by implying that, just as Constantine had delivered the Christians from an age of persecution, so had Elizabeth. But there is another parallel that Foxe is interested in establishing, at which he hints as the letter continues. Foxe tells the story of how Constantine once traveled to Caesaria, where he promised to grant Eusebius, the Bishop, whatever he wanted for the good of the church: “The good and godly Byshop … made this petition, onely to obtaine at his maiesties hand under his seale and letters autentique, free leave and license through al the monarchie of Rome … to searche out the names, sufferinges and actes, of all such as suffered in al that time of persecution before, for the testimonie and faith of Christ Jesus” (1563 Pref., vi).

‘Thou shalt turn to ashes’

Moreana ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 45 (Number 175) (3) ◽  
pp. 188-208
Author(s):  
Paul Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
King John ◽  
Acts And Monuments

Although the sixteenth century Protestant construction of the reign of King John is a familiar one – John reconfigured into a heroic-victim of the Papacy, providing evidence of England’s pre-Reformation Protestant past – what has received no attention is a further transformation of John that occurs in the last major sixteenth century text to consider his reign. Shakespeare’s King John makes full recourse to earlier Protestant reconstructions of John’s reign but goes further. This paper demonstrates John’s transformation in Shakespeare’s play from the Protestant victim of Fish’s Supplication of Beggars, Bale’s King Johnan and Foxe’s Acts and Monuments into a full-blown Protestant martyr.

John Foxe, Poets, and Sir Thomas More

Moreana ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 42 (Number 163) (3) ◽  
pp. 7-42
Author(s):  
Erin E. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Thomas More ◽  
John Foxe ◽  
Sir Thomas More ◽  
Acts And Monuments

Sir Thomas More transforms material from Foxe’s Acts and Monuments to offer through the character More a defense of poets, playwrights, and theatre. Foxe describes More as a poet, equating his writings with Catholicism and with lying. The authors of the play deviate from this source in presenting poets as tolerant and moral. Their More rejects the oppositional thinking that makes martyrdom possible and, therefore, is not a straightforward martyr figure as he goes to his death. Rather, he is a representative poet whose open-mindedness and empathy for all people serve as a defense of poetry and thus also of plays.

Dis-Manteling More

Moreana ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (Number 179- (1-2) ◽  
pp. 165-193
Author(s):  
Peter I. Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
King John ◽  
Acts And Monuments

Although the sixteenth century Protestant construction of the reign of King John is a familiar one – John reconfigured into a heroic-victim of the Papacy, providing evidence of England’s pre-Reformation Protestant past – what has received no attention is a further transformation of John that occurs in the last major sixteenth century text to consider his reign. Shakespeare’s King John makes full recourse to earlier Protestant reconstructions of John’s reign but goes further. This paper demonstrates John’s transformation in Shakespeare’s play from the Protestant victim of Fish’s Supplication of Beggars, Bale’s King Johnan and Foxe’s Acts and Monuments into a full-blown Protestant martyr.

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