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1	The reception of John Foxe's 'Acts and Monuments', 1563-1641 Nussbaum, Damian January 1998 (has links) No description available. 900
2	Memoirs of the Persecuted: Persecution, Memory, and the West as a Mormon Refuge Grua, David W. 15 August 2008 (has links) (PDF) 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 the role of collective memory of violence in forming Mormon identities and images of place from 1838, when governor Lilburn W. Boggs expelled the Latter-day Saints from Missouri, to 1858, with the conclusion of the Utah War. I argue that Latter-day Saint authors during these two decades used the memory of persecution to create and reinforce a communal identity as a means of resistance against oppression. The memory of persecution led Mormon writers to alter their image of the United States as a land of liberty, recasting the nation as a place of oppression, and coming to see the American West, in particular the Salt Lake Valley, as a new land of liberty. The thesis contains four chapters. Chapter I provides historical and theoretical background. Chapter II is an analysis of the martyrological tropes utilized by Mormon essayists from 1838 to 1858 to construct a group identity based on the memory of shared suffering and resistance against oppression. I show that remembering persecution allowed these writers to portray themselves as members of an elect community that included biblical prophets and ancient Christians. In turn, Mormon authors also represented their persecutors as part of a community of God's enemies, upon whom God would bring vengeance, either in this life or the next. Chapter III explores how Latter-day Saint essayists used the memory of persecution to form images of place. Although the Mormons believed that the nation was a divinely-established country based on religious freedom, portraying the violence against them as religious persecution led Latter-day Saint authors to discursively cast the deserts and mountains of the Great Basin as their new refuge. In Chapter IV I briefly examine ways that the memory of persecution shaped Mormon-non-Mormon interactions in the American West as a means to summarize the themes introduced in the thesis. Mormonism Memory Martyrology American West History
3	Changing Narratives of Martyrdom in the Works of Huguenot Printers During the Wars of Religion. Hartsfield, Byron J. 06 April 2018 (has links) The aim of my project is to show how the lives, strategies and attitudes of Huguenot printers of the late sixteenth century both reflected and influenced the self-image of Protestant Europeans. Historians of the book such as Roger Chartier and Adrian Johns have argued that the process of printing includes several components which are easily overlooked by historians interested in exploring thoughts and attitudes. My project attempts to put these insights to practical use by demonstrating how printers were as integral to the process of reading as were readers and writers. I investigate the lives, social networks, and business strategies of a pair of successful Huguenot printers of Geneva, Jean Crespin and Eustache Vignon. My investigation shows how they relied on cooperative, international networks to practice their business and that this fostered a practical, cosmopolitan attitude among them. I then examine Jean Crespin’s most famous work, the Livre des Martyrs, showing how it supplied the needs of his readers for a sense of meaning an community. I show how this work changed over time in response to changing needs and circumstances, as seen most dramatically in the version which Eustache Vignon produced after his partner’s death. Finally, I examine how Vignon – along with other Protestant printers of his time – began to produce books about the New World. I argue that these New World Works, reflecting the printers’ cosmopolitan perspective, promoted a more ecumenical vision of Christianity and a universal ethic based on kindness and justice. Reformation Print Revolution Networks Martyrology Jean Crespin Black Legend European History History Latin American History
4	Eudocia: The Making of a Homeric Christian SOWERS, BRIAN P. 25 August 2008 (has links) No description available. Classical Studies Eudocia Centos, Cyprian Magic Byzantine Late Antiquity Homeric reception Intertextuality martyrology gender studies early Christianity
5	Exchanging the Old with the New: Medieval Influences on Early Modern Representations in The Examinations of Anne Askew Dear, Natalie E. Unknown Date No description available. Martyrology Early modern representation Mulier fortis Marian devotion Medieval hagiography Heresy Reformation historiography Medieval historiography Early modern women's writings Medieval women's writings
6	For God and Country: The Politicization of English Martyrology Hepworth, Nathan Henry 18 August 2011 (has links) No description available. Behavioral Sciences Bible Biblical Studies British and Irish Literature Clergy European History European Studies History Literature Modern History Modern Literature Religion Religious History Spirituality Theology World History John Foxe Martyr martyrdom martyrology English literature Restoration politics Clement Cotton Bauthumley Tutchin Eikon Basilike persecution Acts and Monuments Billingsley Clarke Burrough Hookes Rigge Winstanley Phillips Heath

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