S. Achinstein, John Foxe and the Jews (Expressions of cultural and racial stereotyping inthe Protestant Reformation), RENAISS Q, 54(1), 2001, pp. 86-120
It is little known that John Foxe's Book of Martyrs included stories of Jew
s. Contradictory and complex, Foxe's writings on Jews show how a powerful w
riter conceived of the place of Jews in a newly self-conscious, Protestant
English national identity amidst conflicting currents of theology, race, an
d politics. The ideologies of Reforming Protestantism supplied the explicit
political frameworks through which age-old stereotypes about the cultural
or racial other could be expressed. Our understanding of early modern philo
-judaism and toleration should be revised accordingly.