A fresh examination of the idea of martyrdom in the transition from the medieval to the modern periods.

Thomas S. Freeman, Thomas F. Mayer

Over Their Dead Bodies: Concepts of Martyrdom in Late Medieval and Early Modern England - Thomas S. Freeman
Imitatio Christi with a Vengeance: The Politicization of Martyrdom in Early Modern England - Thomas S. Freeman
`Thus May a Man be a Martyr': The Notion, Language and Experiences of Martyrdom in Late Medieval England - Danna Piroyansky
Which is Wyche? Lollardy and Sanctity in Lancastrian London -
Saints and Martyrs in Tyndale and More - Brad Gregory
Becket's Bones Burnt! Cardinal Pole and the Invention and Dissemination of an Atrocity - Thomas Mayer
`A Saynt in the Devyls Name': Heroes and Villains in the Martyrdom of Robert Barnes - Alec Ryrie
Martyrs and Anti-martyrs and Mary Tudor's Church - William Wizeman
Robert Persons's Comfortable History of England - Victor Houliston
`Charles the First and Christ the Second': The Creation of a Political Martyr - Andrew Lacey
The Martyrdom of Sir Henry Vane the Younger: From Apocalyptic Witness to Heroic Whig - John Coffey