John foxe biography
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John Foxe: a biography
by Tom Freeman
John Foxe () was born in Boston, Lincolnshire in His father, of whom little is known, may have been related to Henry Foxe, an affluent merchant who became Mayor of the town in He died while John was very young, and his mother subsequently married Richard Melton, a prosperous yeoman of the nearby village of Conningsby. John Hawarden, a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, became rector of Conningsby in , and about John Foxe entered Brasenose, where his room mate was Alexander Nowell, the future Dean of St Pauls. Three decades later Foxe was to dedicate a work to Hawarden, thanking him for making his university career possible.
Magdalen College
Although he took his bachelor's degree on 17th July , it is not clear how long Foxe remained at Brasenose. He may have taught for a time at Magdalen College School, because he became a probationer Fellow at Magdalen in July , and a full Fellow a year later. In he was a College Lecturer in logic, and
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John Foxe
English historian and martyrologist (died )
For the Irish scientist, see John Foxe (neuroscientist). For the English politician, see John Foxe (MP). For others with similar names, see John Fox (disambiguation).
John Foxe ([1]/ – 18 April )[2] was an English clergyman,[3]theologian, and historian, notable for his martyrologyActes and Monuments (otherwise known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs), telling of Christian martyrs throughout Western history, but particularly the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the 14th century and in the reign of Mary I. The book was widely owned and read by English Puritans and helped to mould British opinion on the Catholic Church for several centuries.[4]
Education
[edit]Foxe was born in Boston, in Lincolnshire, England, of a middlingly prominent family[5] and seems to have been an unusually studious and devout child.[6] In about , when he was about
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John Foxe
John Foxe (ur. w w Bostonie, zm. 18 kwietnia w Londynie[1]) – angielskimartyrolog, purytanin i historyk Kościoła, autor Book of Martyrs.
Życiorys
[edytuj | edytuj kod]Urodził się w roku w Bostonie. Studiował na Uniwersytecie Oxfordzkim, gdzie padły na niego podejrzenia o ekstremalne poglądy protestanckie. Wobec tego, roku przeniósł się do Londynu, gdzie został nauczycielem inom przyjął święcenia diakonatu w Kościele Anglii. Pracował na rzecz reformacji, pisząc traktaty, jednocześnie pracując nad księgą męczenników, jednakże wstąpienie na tron katolickiejkrólowejMarii I w roku zmusiło go do ucieczki z kraju[1].
Rok później, w Strasburgu, opublikował po łacinie część swojej pracy, zatytułowaną Commentarii rerum in ecclesia gestarum. Następnie udał się do Frankfurtu, gdzie poparł Partię Kalwińską Johna Knoxa i do Bazylei, gdzie napisał przemowę (Ad inclytos ac praepotentes Angliae proceres) do szlachty angielskiej, wzywającą królową do zaprzestania prześlad