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John Foxe and the Jews*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Sharon Achinstein
Sharon Achinstein*
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University of Maryland
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Abstract

It is little known that John Foxes Book of Martyrs included stories of Jews. Contradictory and complex, Foxes writings on Jews show how a powerful writer conceived of the place of Jews in a newly self-concious, Protestant English national identity amidst conflicting currents of theology, race, and politics. The ideologies of Reforming Protestantism supplied the explicit political frameworks through which age-old stereotypes about the cultural or racial other could be expressed. Our understanding of early modern philo-judaism and toleration should be revised accordingly.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , Spring 2001 , pp. 86 - 120
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 2001

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