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  • Reconstituting the Textual Body in Jean Crespin's Histoire des martyrs (1564)

  • Catharine Randall Coats
  • Journal:
    Renaissance Quarterly / Volume 44 / Issue 1 / Spring 1991
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    20 November 2018, pp. 62-85
    Print publication:
    Spring 1991

  • Jean Crespin's Histoire des martyrs (1554-1597) appears at first as a collection of fragments supplying historical information regarding the martyrdoms of continental Protestant men and women. However, I argue that this martyrology is far more sophisticated and coherent in its conception and execution than its episodic appearance conveys in a first reading. It aims not merely at a tendentious recounting of persecution. Rather, the text seeks to effect a veritable resuscitation of the bodies upon which it is structured, those suffocated words still contained in the stricken corpse.