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“The Light of Printing“: William Tyndale, John Foxe, John Day, and Early Modern Print Culture*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

John N. King
John N. King*
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The Ohio State University
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Abstract

John Foxe, the martyrologist, and John Day, the Elizabethan master printer, played central roles in the emergence of literate print culture following the death of William Tyndale, translator of the New Testament and parts of the Bible into English. In so doing, Foxe and his publisher contributed to the accepted modern belief that Protestantism and early printing reinforced each other. Foxe's revision of his biography of Tyndale in the second edition of Acts and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days (1570) and his collaboration on Day's 1573 publication of Tyndale's collected non-translation prose place intense stress upon the trio's active involvement in the English book trade. The engagement of Foxe and Day with Tyndale's publishing career exemplifies ways in which these bookmen exploited the power of the printing press to effect religious and cultural

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , Spring 2001 , pp. 52 - 85
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 2001

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