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Product Description: Martyrs' Mirror examines the folklore of martyrdom among seventeenth-century New England Protestants, exploring how they imagined themselves within biblical and historical narratives of persecution. Memories of martyrdom, especially stories of the Protestants killed during the reign of Queen Mary in the mid-sixteenth century, were central to a model of holiness and political legitimacy...read more

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9780199743117 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 10, 2011, cover price $67.00 | About this edition: Martyrs' Mirror examines the folklore of martyrdom among seventeenth-century New England Protestants, exploring how they imagined themselves within biblical and historical narratives of persecution.

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9780199390953 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 2014), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Martyrs' Mirror examines the folklore of martyrdom among seventeenth-century New England Protestants, exploring how they imagined themselves within biblical and historical narratives of persecution.

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9789004265134, titled "Law, Medicine, and Engineering in the Cult of the Saints in Counter-Reformation Rome: The Hagiographical Works of Antonio Gallonio, 1556-1605" | Brill Academic Pub, January 30, 2014, cover price $159.00

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Product Description: In an age of suicide bombers and paranoid political rhetoric, the concept of martyrdom can make ordinary Christians uncomfortable, filled at once with fascination and dread. Christian martyrdom may seem like something far removed from common experience -- something only from long ago (in gruesome stories of ancient saints and Roman lions) or far away (in troubled Africa or Central Asia or the war-torn Middle East)...read more
By Karen Scott (editor)

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9780802862587 | Eerdmans Pub Co, April 12, 2011, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: In an age of suicide bombers and paranoid political rhetoric, the concept of martyrdom can make ordinary Christians uncomfortable, filled at once with fascination and dread.

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9781433104879, titled "My Share of Gods Reward: Exploring the Roles and Formulations of the Afterlife in Early Christian Martyrdom" | Peter Lang Pub Inc, April 1, 2009, cover price $86.95

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Product Description: Concepts of Christian martyrdom changed greatly in England from the late middle ages through the early modern era. The variety of paradigms of Christian martyrdom (with, for example, virginity or asceticism perceived as alternate forms of martyrdom) that existed in the late medieval period, came to be replaced during the English Reformation with a single dominant idea of martyrdom: that of violent death endured for orthodox religion...read more
By Thomas S. Freeman (editor) and Thomas F. Mayer (editor)

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9781843832904 | Boydell Pr, April 19, 2007, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Concepts of Christian martyrdom changed greatly in England from the late middle ages through the early modern era.

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Re-examines the presentation, theology, and origins of Christian martyrdom up to the beginning of the Decian persecutions. However, this project argues that, far from being a deviant strand of early Christianity, radical martyrdom was a significant, and widely held idealized form of Christ-devotion in the late first to early third centuries.

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9780567041647 | T&t Clark Ltd, August 30, 2006, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: Re-examines the presentation, theology, and origins of Christian martyrdom up to the beginning of the Decian persecutions.

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