{"product_id":"the-english-martyr-from-reformation-alice-dailey-9780268026127","title":"English Martyr from Reformation to Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003eTraditionally, Christian martyrdom is a repetition of the story of Christ'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's \u003ci\u003eActs and Monuments\u003c\/i\u003e, martyrologies of the Counter-Reformation, Charles I's \u003ci\u003eEikon Basilike\u003c\/i\u003e, and John Milton's \u003ci\u003eEikonoklastes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe English Martyr from Reformation to Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e traces the shifting constructions of the martyr figure across Reformation England. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy putting history and literary form in dialogue, Dailey describes not only the reformation of one of the oldest, most influential genres of the Christian West but a revolution in the very concept of martyrdom. In late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England, she argues, martyrdom develops from medieval notions of strict typological repetition into Charles I's defense of individual conscience--an abstract, figurative form of martyrdom that survives into modernity. Far from static or purely formulaic, martyrology emerges in Dailey's study as a deeply nuanced genre that discloses the mutually constitutive relationship between the lives we live and the stories we tell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice Dailey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0268026122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268026127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Alice Dailey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054819242239,"sku":"9780268026127","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1e4fb31f-5cd6-467f-8949-7a61bad059c0.jpg?v=1685032180","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-english-martyr-from-reformation-alice-dailey-9780268026127","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}