Representations of persecution and martyrdom in sixteenth- and
seventeenth-century England helped shape a lasting ideal of
Protestant heroism. This book shows how Protestant writers tried to
recreate a drama of suffering learned from the Bible and from
accounts of the primitive Church. It examines John Foxe's Acts and
Monuments (the Book of Martyrs), second only to the Bible in
importance for English Protestants of the period, revealing the
subversive potential of the work by exploring how it furnished a
discourse of martyrdom for those wishing to resist the authority of
the Church. Professor Knott also traces Milton's complex
negotiations with Foxe and ideas of martyrdom, and engages with the
work of the Elizabethan Separatists, William Prynne, John Bunyan,
the Quaker leader George Fox, and the hymn-writer Isaac Watts. This
is an extensive treatment of the literature of persecution in
Renaissance England.
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