Burning zeal; the rhetoric of martyrdom and the Protestant community in Reformation France, 1520-1570.9780934223874 Burning zeal; the rhetoric of martyrdom Martyrdom See also Sacrifice. Agatha, St. tortured for resisting advances of Quintianus. [Christian Hagiog.: Daniel, 21] Alban, St. traditionally, first British martyr. [Christian Hagiog: NCE, 49] Andrew, St. and the Protestant community in Reformation France, 1520-1570. Shepardson, Nikki. Lehigh University Lehigh University, at Bethlehem, Pa.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1866 by Asa Packer. It has undergraduate colleges of arts and science, business and economics, and engineering and applied science, as well as several graduate programs. Press 2007 206 pages $44.50 Hardcover BR370 Shepardson (history, Rider U.) describes how Calvinist and other Protestant authorities used the martyrdom of their fellow adherents to develop a stirring rhetoric that would prepare and reinforce believers for life within a despised faith, legitimate their beliefs and attract converts. Particularly interesting is her analysis of how real people were translated into archetypes or even stereotypes, and how women who did not assume particularly meek and feminine behaviors as the fire licked their boots were recast re·cast tr.v. re·cast, re·cast·ing, re·casts 1. To mold again: recast a bell. 2. in the stories about them to come. She traces the development of the rhetoric over time, its application by gender and the informational need of the moment, and the ramifications ramifications npl → Auswirkungen pl for the success of Protestantism in France at a time when to state one's religion was to beckon beck·on v. beck·oned, beck·on·ing, beck·ons v.tr. 1. To signal or summon, as by nodding or waving. 2. to the angel of death. Distributed by Associated University Presses. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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