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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Catharine Randall Coats
Catharine Randall Coats*
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Barnard College
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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.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , Spring 1991 , pp. 62 - 85
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1991

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