Sacred Demonization: Saints' Legends in the English RenaissanceBraumüller, 2007 - 269 pages |
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What How and Wherefore | 1 |
Caveats and Clarifications of Terms | 9 |
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Actes and Monuments Alphege anti-saints ascesis Author's translation authority Becket behavior biblical bishop carnival carnivalesque Catholicism century Christ Christian church Clitherow controversialist Counter-Reformational Cranmer cruelty death demonic denominational discourse divine doctrine early modern ecclesiastical Elizabethan England evangelical example fact faith figure FIRE metaphor Foxe Foxe's George Joye God's godly hagiographic texts hagiographic writings historical holy fool holy sinner human ideological imagery instance Jesus John John Foxe king language laughter legends literary lives Luther Margaret Clitherow martyr martyrdom means medieval metaphor Middle Ages miracles misrule More's narrated saints narrative narrative theology pagan papal paradox persecution persecutors person pope PRESENCE IS FIRE present protagonists Protestant Protestantism reader reference Reformation religion religious Renaissance role Roman Catholic sacred biography sainthood saintly seems significance sixteenth-century South English South English Legendary spiritual story storyworld symbolic theology Thomas Thomas Becket Thomas Cranmer tion torture tradition ungodly victims vitae words þat