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Woodcuts from John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments
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Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: A jailor ("Gaoler" ["Jailor"]) guards Bradford ("Bradford."), while Spanish friars question him in his cell. One friar ("Alphon.") questions Bradford directly, and a second friar ("confessor.") and a priest stand behind the first friar. Bradford carries a book, which symbolizes a Bible, in his ri... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Frith and Hewet stand among stacked faggots and await martyrdom. A large crowd observes the execution, which is about to occur in a town square. A friar addresses the crowd, some of whom gesture in alarm. Soldiers prepare the pyre, and a richly dressed man watches from horseback. This woodcut app... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: A jailor guards Bradford, while three bishops question him in his cell. Xylographic labels identify Bradford and his guard ("Bradford" and "keper." ["keeper"]). Bradford carries a book, which symbolizes a Bible, in his right hand. This woodcut appears in the first through fourth editions (1563, 1... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Observed by a crowd of soldiers, John Denley suffers martyrdom. As Denley raises his arms upward and sings a Psalm, Dr. John Story (xylographically identified as "D. Stori"), an ecclesiastical commissioner under Queen Mary, orders a worker to hurl a faggot at the martyr. According to Foxe, Denley... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: King, Debnam, and Marsh hang by the chest from three separate gallows. They suffer for allegedly destroying a rood, which burns in the foreground. The cross contains a life-size crucifix and the designation, "IHS" ("J[esus] H[ominorum] S[alvator]" ["Jesus, savior of mankind"]). A crowd of soldier... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Friars forcibly remove Bilney from his pulpit outside Saint George's Church in Ipswich ("Friers pulling Bilney out of the pulpit." ["Friars pulling Bilney out of the pulpit"]; "Saint Georges churche in Ipswich." ["Saint George's church in Ipswich"]). The congregation of men, women, and children s... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: On the eve of his execution, Bilney points to an open Bible with his left hand and extends his right hand into a candle flame, which radiates brightly. Bilney behaves in this manner to prepare himself for martyrdom. His cell companion observes from bed. This woodcut appears in the first through f... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Hunne hangs dead from a ceiling beam in Lollards' Tower, an episcopal prison at St. Paul's Cathedral in London, while his three alleged murderers exit. One murderer, who holds keys to the cell, blows out a candle on his way out. Foxe argues that Hunne was murdered before being hanged, but this th... -
Contributing Institution: Ohio State University Libraries and Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library Description: This woodcut image depicts selected reforms of the English church that transpired during the reign of King Edward VI. Priests and tonsured friars carry censing bells, mass books, crucifixes, and other allegedly dangerous objects of Roman Catholic devotion from a church ("The Temple well purged") ... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: James Bainham stands barefoot on a raised platform and undergoes penance before a congregation at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. He carries a bundle of wood and a lit candle, and a tonsured priest gestures to the congregants from behind him. This woodcut appears once in the second (1570), third ...