A critical edition of the Acts and Monuments by John Foxe
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Grant Holder:
Mike Pidd
John Foxe’s famous ‘Book of Martyrs’ is a foundation text for the English Reformation. Its vision has profoundly influenced English culture. This project completes the task of making the whole of Foxe’s text available in an innovative on-line edition in which specialists and non-specialists alike can appreciate the ways in which Foxe sought to counter his critics, absorb new materials, and justify the protestant reformation to his contemporaries. In Books 1-9, Foxe put this reformation into its deeper historical, ecclesiastical and theological perspective. This project examines in detail how he did this. The edition enables the comparative study of Foxe’s editions to be undertaken alongside structured layers of commentary which explain the changes that Foxe made to his text, with facsimile pages for reference purposes.
Generation of HTML files from XML data for web-delivery
Production of compressed JPEG files from uncompressed TIFF for web dissemination
Generation of HTML files from Access database
| Project start date: 2005-09 | Project end date: 2008-09 |
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| Methods used | Category |
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| 2d Scanning and photography | Data capture |
| Content-based image retrieval | Data analysis |
| Documentation | Strategy and project management |
| Text encoding - descriptive | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - presentational | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - referential | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Prototyping | Strategy and project management |
| Searching and querying | Data analysis |
| Server scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Security planning | Strategy and project management |
| Web browser scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
| General website development | Data publishing and dissemination |
| General project management | Strategy and project management |
Funding sources:
British Academy, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created:
Dataset/structured data, Still Image/Graphics, Text
Software tools used:
Javascript, Microsoft Access
Source material used:
The sources are the four English editions of Foxe's Acts and Monuments published in his own lifetime - those of 1563, 1570, 1576 and 1583. The base editions used have been from a variety of locations, indicated already in the online edition.
Digital resource created:
The digital resource is an online text and image edition, focusing on the genetics of a complex text, and designed, therefore, to provide facilities for parallel view of different editions, tables of omissions, transpositions and additions as between one edition and another, and to enable the researcher to understand the changes that Foxe and his printer make by means of a block commentary, consultable from any edition at the appropriate point.
The Project’s data elaboration methods have already been established in the procedures developed for Books 10-12 of the edition. Text data is encoded in XML and follows all TEI guidelines. The Project DTD is a TEI TDT. Is has been established and tested with the assistance of the technical staff of the HRI. Image data is scanned at high resolution (600dpi: some images from the BL being scanned by the Library at 300dpi) and stored as compressed TIF files for archival purposes. The images are released in the online edition at web-standard resolution (72dpi) in JPEG files. The fundamental user interface has already been constructed. It complies with the current usability guidelines and allows the user to access and browse through the separate editions. It also has a more complex interface which includes two, flexible screen arrays that allow for the comparison of one edition of the text with another. Both interfaces allow the display of Greek and Anglo-Saxon fonts, macrons, marginal glosses, different typefaces, etc. This involves the deployment of sophisticated stylesheets. The edition is optimised for viewing it in all browsers. Exceptional character sets (e.g. polytonic Greek character sets) are delivered by means of unicode entity references. In general, the fundamental layout of the interface will remain the same for the remainder of the edition.
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Data Formats created:
JPEG File Interchange Format (JPG), Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), Extensible Markup Language (XML) TEI-compliant
Metadata standards employed:
Dublin Core, simple (DC), Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
Publications:
David Loades, "Foxe's Book of Martyrs and the Face of England" (History Today, 55:12 (2005), pp. 40-49.
Thomas S. Freeman, ‘The scribal culture of the Marian martyrs' in The Uses of Script and Print,eds., Julia Crick and Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge, CUP, 2004), pp. 235-54.
Thomas S. Freeman, ‘Offending God: John Foxe and English Protestant Reactions to the Cult of the Virgin Mary' in The Church and Mary, ed. Robert N. Swanson, Studies in Church History 39 (2004), pp. 228-38.
Thomas S. Freeman and Elizabeth Evenden, 'Print, profit and propaganda: The Elizabethan Privy Council and the 1570 edition of of Foxe's "Book of Martyrs"', English Historical Review 119 (2004), pp. 1288-1307.
David Loades (ed.), John Foxe at Home and Abroad (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2004)) - includes various contributions from the Foxe Project team.
Thomas S. Freeman, “Providence and prescription: The account of Elizabeth in Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs” in The Myth of Elizabeth, eds. Susan Doran and Thomas S. Freeman (Basingstoke, 2003), pp. 27-55.
Thomas S. Freeman, “The prison writings of the Marian martyrs” in Europa Sacra: Raccolte agiografiche e identità politiche in Europa fra Medioevo ed Età moderna, eds. Sofia Boesch Gajano and Raimundo
Michetti (Rome, 2002), pp. 295-318.
Thomas S. Freeman and Elizabeth Evenden, “John Foxe, John Day and the printing of the “Book of
Martyrs’” in Lives in Print: Biography and the Book Trade, eds. Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote (New Castle, DE and London, 2002), pp. 23-54.
Thomas S. Freeman, “Dissenters from a dissenting Church: the challenge of the Freewillers, 1550-1558” in The Beginnings of English Protestantism, eds Peter Marshall and Alec Ryrie (Cambridge, 2002), pp. 129-56.
Thomas S. Freeman, ‘”As true a subiect being Prysoner”: John Foxe’s notes on the imprisonment of Princess
Elizabeth, 1554-5”, English Historical Review 117 (2002), pp. 104-116.
Thomas S. Freeman and Sarah Wall, ‘Racking the Body, Shaping the Text: The Account of Anne
Askew in Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs,”’ Renaissance Quarterly 54 (2001), pp. 1165-97.
Thomas S. Freeman, “Early modern martyrs”, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 52 (2001), pp. 696-701.
Thomas S. Freeman, “The Good Ministrye of Godlye and Vertuouse Women”: The Elizabethan Martyrologists
the Female Supporters of the Marian Martyrs,’ Journal of British Studies 39 (2000), pp. 8-33.
Thomas S. Freeman, “Fate, faction and fiction in Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs” Historical Journal 43 (2000), pp. 8-33.
Thomas S. Freeman, “Demons, deviance and defiance: John Darrell and the politics of exorcism in late Elizabethan England” in Conformity and Orthodoxy in the English Church, c. 1560-1660, eds. Peter Lake and
Michael Questier (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2000), pp. 34-63.
Thomas S. Freeman, “Texts, Lies and Microfilm: Reading and Misreading Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs”, Sixteenth
Century Journal 30 (1999), pp. 23-46.
Thomas S. Freeman, “New perspectives on an old book: the creation and influence of Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs”, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 49 (1998), pp. 317-28.
Thomas S. Freeman, “John Bale’s Book of Martyrs?: The account of King John in Acts and Monuments”, Reformation 3 (1998), pp. 175-223.
Thomas S. Freeman, ‘The scribal culture of the Marian martyrs' in The Uses of Script and Print,eds., Julia Crick and Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge, CUP, 2004), pp. 235-54.
Thomas S. Freeman, ‘Offending God: John Foxe and English Protestant Reactions to the Cult of the Virgin Mary' in The Church and Mary, ed. Robert N. Swanson, Studies in Church History 39 (2004), pp. 228-38.
Thomas S. Freeman and Elizabeth Evenden, 'Print, profit and propaganda: The Elizabethan Privy Council and the 1570 edition of of Foxe's "Book of Martyrs"', English Historical Review 119 (2004), pp. 1288-1307.
David Loades (ed.), John Foxe at Home and Abroad (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2004)) - includes various contributions from the Foxe Project team.
Thomas S. Freeman, “Providence and prescription: The account of Elizabeth in Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs” in The Myth of Elizabeth, eds. Susan Doran and Thomas S. Freeman (Basingstoke, 2003), pp. 27-55.
Thomas S. Freeman, “The prison writings of the Marian martyrs” in Europa Sacra: Raccolte agiografiche e identità politiche in Europa fra Medioevo ed Età moderna, eds. Sofia Boesch Gajano and Raimundo
Michetti (Rome, 2002), pp. 295-318.
Thomas S. Freeman and Elizabeth Evenden, “John Foxe, John Day and the printing of the “Book of
Martyrs’” in Lives in Print: Biography and the Book Trade, eds. Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote (New Castle, DE and London, 2002), pp. 23-54.
Thomas S. Freeman, “Dissenters from a dissenting Church: the challenge of the Freewillers, 1550-1558” in The Beginnings of English Protestantism, eds Peter Marshall and Alec Ryrie (Cambridge, 2002), pp. 129-56.
Thomas S. Freeman, ‘”As true a subiect being Prysoner”: John Foxe’s notes on the imprisonment of Princess
Elizabeth, 1554-5”, English Historical Review 117 (2002), pp. 104-116.
Thomas S. Freeman and Sarah Wall, ‘Racking the Body, Shaping the Text: The Account of Anne
Askew in Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs,”’ Renaissance Quarterly 54 (2001), pp. 1165-97.
Thomas S. Freeman, “Early modern martyrs”, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 52 (2001), pp. 696-701.
Thomas S. Freeman, “The Good Ministrye of Godlye and Vertuouse Women”: The Elizabethan Martyrologists
the Female Supporters of the Marian Martyrs,’ Journal of British Studies 39 (2000), pp. 8-33.
Thomas S. Freeman, “Fate, faction and fiction in Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs” Historical Journal 43 (2000), pp. 8-33.
Thomas S. Freeman, “Demons, deviance and defiance: John Darrell and the politics of exorcism in late Elizabethan England” in Conformity and Orthodoxy in the English Church, c. 1560-1660, eds. Peter Lake and
Michael Questier (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2000), pp. 34-63.
Thomas S. Freeman, “Texts, Lies and Microfilm: Reading and Misreading Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs”, Sixteenth
Century Journal 30 (1999), pp. 23-46.
Thomas S. Freeman, “New perspectives on an old book: the creation and influence of Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs”, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 49 (1998), pp. 317-28.
Thomas S. Freeman, “John Bale’s Book of Martyrs?: The account of King John in Acts and Monuments”, Reformation 3 (1998), pp. 175-223.
Institutions affiliated with this project:
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| University of Sheffield |
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| USA |
| The British Academy |
| University of Ohio |
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Professor Mark Greengrass; Dr Freeman |
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| Other staff: | Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s), PhD student(s), Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
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| Author(s) of record | Mark Greengrass |
| Title | A critical edition of the Acts and Monuments by John Foxe |
| Record created | 2007-02-09 |
| Record updated | 2011-01-14 15:25 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2100 |
| Citation of record | Mark Greengrass: A critical edition of the Acts and Monuments by John Foxe. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2100> created: 2007-02-09, last updated 2011-01-14 15:25 |