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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

The horror bestseller of the 1500's: Fox's Book of Martyrs

These are the horror stories of the Catholic inquisition that people would read for entertainment with their little candles. It is definatly a piece of work that paints that catholics in a bad light. One reads of people such as Willian Tyndale who was burnt at the stake for translating the New Testement into English so that the common man could read it. Or John Bunyan the author of 'A Pilgrims Progress' who was arrested for preaching without a license.

4 comments:

Chris Horrie said...

These notes are really superb - each entry is very useful and perceptive. Cearly you are learning a great deal and at the same time contributing such a lot to the work of the group as a whole/

journalismjenni said...

WOW ! Thank you Chris that is a beautiful vote of confidence. I am so enjoying the course though.

Cathy Koetsier said...

Got woken up by the dog and then couldn't sleep, so I have now spent a happy 1/2 hour skim reading your blog! Very interesting stuff Jenni, and well recorded....

journalismjenni said...

Aww thank you mom :) As we have discussed, the internet is such a cool way of learning.