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Woodcuts from John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments
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Executions and executioners
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Hanging
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Martyrdom
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Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Oldcastle hangs chained from a gallows and suspended over a burning pyre. Workers tend the fire, and a supervisor leads his horse nearby. A large crowd of civilians, clerics, and monks observes; some of these figures express alarm, and others express mockery. This woodcut appears in the first thr... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: "MD" (see "Soldiers drag two Christians by ropes" in this collection). -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Two sets of Lollard martyrs hang over flames, from two separate gallows, while soldiers tend the fire under each gallows. A man on horseback directs the execution, which occurs during the first year of the reign of King Henry V (1413). This woodcut appears in the second (1570), third (1576), and ... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: An executioner lowers Gardiner by chain from a gallows into a blaze. A crowd of soldiers and civilians observes, and a friar and a priest on horseback jeer. The stumps of Gardiner's bleeding wrists indicate that his hands have been cut off. According to Foxe, the execution occurs in Lisbon at the... -
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: 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: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Bound and clothed, Wisehart hangs suspended over a fire. Chains and rope hold him to a gallows at both the waist and neck. The martyrdom occurs at St. Andrews, Scotland. This woodcut appears in the second (1570), third (1576), and fourth (1583) editions. Luborsky and Ingram 11223/55. JPEG file (3... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: After cutting Damlip down from a gallows, a guard disembowels him. Damlip lies propped, still living, against the gallows, and a fire burns nearby, ready to consume his entrails. The recently severed noose hangs from Damlip's neck. An official on horseback supervises the execution, and a crowd of... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: A woman and man, both bound, hang by their hair on either side of a tree. A second woman hangs by the ankles at the man's right. The first woman is partially clothed, and the man and the second woman are each dressed in loincloth. (Cartouche: "Some hanged by the heare and feete.41.80." [ "Some ha... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Girolamo Savonarola, the zealous Dominican friar and Italian proto-reformer, and two others hang barefoot from a gallows. The martyrs are suspended from the neck by ropes and from the waist by chains. A fire burns beneath them. This woodcut appears in the second (1570), third (1576), and fourth (...