John Foxe at home and abroad

Preface for Patrick Collinson; Introduction, D. Loades. At Home: Spital Hospital: A saga of the Reformation in John Foxe's Lincolnshire, David Marcombe; Protestant Evangelism in Boston on the accession of Elizabeth: the Ministry of Melchior Smith, Claire Cross; Evangelicalism at Boston, Oxford and Windsor under Henry VIII: John Foxe's narratives recontextualized, Magnus Williamson; The Martyr Tallies: Robert Persons and his anonymous respondent, Victor Houliston; Essex Evangelicals under Edward VI: Richard, Lord Rich, Richard Alvey and their circle, Brett Usher; The fleeing Dutchmen? The influence of Dutch immigrants upon the Print Shop of John Day, Elizabeth Evenden; 'Most wicked superstition and idolatry': John Foxe, his predecessors, and the development of an anti-Catholic polemic in the 16th-century accounts of the reign of Mary I, Ramona Garcia. Abroad: Feeding the flock with wind: Protestant uses of a Dantean trope, from Foxe to Milton, Nicholas Havely; Foxe in the wilderness: the Book of Martyrs in 17th-century New England, Francis J. Bremer; A Nicodemite in England and Italy: Edward Courtenay, 1548-1556, Anne Overell; John Foxe in the Low Countries, 1566-1914, Paul Arblater; Was Haemstede a direct source for Foxe? On le Blas's Pijnbanck and other borrowings, Guido Latre; Thanksgiving from Germany in 1559: an analysis of the content, sources and style of John Foxe's Germaniae ad Angliam Gratulatio, John Wade. Message and Methodology: Stowe's vision of martyrdom in Uncle Tom's Cabin, Margaret Dean; 'Foxe' as a methodological response to epistemic challenges: The Book of Martyrs transported, Devorah Greenberg; 'Twenty-first-Century Foxe': The online Variorum edition of Foxe's Actes and Monuments, Mark Greengrass, Joy Lloyd and Sue Smith; Appendix: The Internet Connection: Claiming John Foxe as their Own. Foxe's Book of Martyrs on the World Wide Web, Janice Devereux; Index.