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12%OFFAlice Dailey - The English Martyr from Reformation to Revolution (ND ReFormations: Medieval & Early Modern) - 9780268026127 - V9780268026127
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The English Martyr from Reformation to Revolution (ND ReFormations: Medieval & Early Modern)

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Description for The English Martyr from Reformation to Revolution (ND ReFormations: Medieval & Early Modern) Paperback. Series: Reformations: Medieval and Early Modern. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HRAM9; HRCC2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.

Traditionally, 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 ... Read more

By 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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Series
Reformations: Medieval and Early Modern
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268026127
SKU
V9780268026127
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About Alice Dailey
Alice Dailey is associate professor of English at Villanova University.

Reviews for The English Martyr from Reformation to Revolution (ND ReFormations: Medieval & Early Modern)
“'Martyrdom is not a death but a story that gets written about a death.' From this simple yet profound premise, Alice Dailey takes us into a tour de force of historical formalism. Martyrdom, as Dailey brilliantly and delicately unpacks it, sits at the nexus of story and the material world. It works through both the suffering of the flesh and ... Read more

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