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Commentary Footnotes
January 2003
Footnotes for
“The Letter from Prison in Christian
History and Theology”
by W.
Clark Gilpin
(University of Chicago Divinity School)
1 Ioan Davies, Writers in Prison (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990), 3.
2 Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub, Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History (New York: Routledge, 1992), 5-6.
3 Henry Ainsworth and Francis Johnson, An Apologie or Defence of Such True Christians as are commonly (but unjustly) called Brownists (n.p., 1604), 89-95. I have modernized the spelling and capitalization in this and the other sixteenth-century documents cited in this commentary. I am happy to acknowledge that quotation from primary sources is by courtesy of the Burke Library of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. A modern edition of the letter appears in Leland H. Carlson, ed., The Writings of John Greenwood and Henry Barrow, 1591-1593, Elizabethan Nonconformist Texts, vol. 6 (London: Allen and Unwin, 1970), 242-252. Carlson's argument that the letter was intended for the Countess of Warwick appears on 238-242.
4 Ainsworth and Johnson, An Apologie; The Examinations Of Henry Barrow, John Greenwood, and John Penry, before the High Commissioners and Lords of the Council (London: for William Marshall, [1681?]).
5 An Epistle of the Persecution of Catholickes in Englande [1582], n.p.
6 John Frith, A boke made by John Fryth prysoner in the Tower of London ([London]: by Richard Jugge, 1548), 103 verso.
7 Miles Coverdale, ed., Certain most godly, fruitful, and comfortable letters of such true Saintes and holy Martyrs of God, as in the late bloodye persecution here within this Realme, gave their lyves for the defence of Christs holy gospel (London: by John Day, 1564), 291.
8 Cited in Felman and Laub, Testimony, 3.
9 John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of these latter and perillous dayes (London: by John Day, 1563), 1021.
10 Davies, Writers in Prison, 49.
11 A parte of a register, conteyning sundrie memorable matters, written by divers godly and learned in our time [n.p., 1590 or 1593?], 27.
12 Coverdale, Certain most godly . . . letters, 2.
13 [William Allen], A Briefe Historie of the Glorious Martyrdom of Twelve Reverend Priests, ed., J. H. Pollen (London: Burns and Oates, 1908), 41-42.
14 Foxe, Actes and Monuments, 1021-1022.
15Foxe, Actes and Monuments, 918.
16Nicholas Ridley and Hugh Latimer, Certein godly, learned, and comfortable conferences betwene the two Reverende Fathers, and holy martyrs of Christe, D. Nicholas Rydley late Bisshoppe of London, and M. Hugh Latimer, sometyme Bisshop of Worcester, during the tyme of their emprisonmentes (n.p., 1556), a1 verso – a2 recto.
17Coverdale, Certain most godly . . . letters, n.p., the preface.
18 Coverdale, Certain most godly . . . letters, 82-83.
19 Paul Ricoeur, Figuring the Sacred: Religion, Narrative, and Imagination, ed. Mark I. Wallace, trans. David Pellauer (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995), 117.
