List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction Claire McEachern
Part I. Form and Community: 2. Biblical rhetoric: the English nation and national sentiment in the prophetic mode Patrick Collinson
3. 'The noyse of the new Bible': reform and reaction in Henrician England David Scott Kastan
4. 'Foxe's' Books of Martyrs: printing and popularising the Acts and Monuments Jesse Lander
5. The place of the stigmata in Christological poetics Lowell Gallagher
6. 'Society supernatural': the imagined community of Hooker's Laws Debora Shuger
7. Hooker in the context of European cultural history William J. Bouwsma
Part II. Literature and Dogma: 8. Pain, persecution, and the construction of selfhood in Foxe's Acts and Monuments Janel M. Mueller
9. Love's martyrs: Shakespeare's 'Phoenix and Turtle' and the sacrificial sonnets Richard C. McCoy
10. The gender of religious devotion: Amelia Lanyer and John Donne Michael Schoenfeldt
11. Othello as protestant propaganda Robert N. Watson
12. Milton against humility Richard Strier
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