SOURCE: Knott, John R. “The Holy Community” and “Bunyan and the Language of Martyrdom.” In Discourses of Martyrdom in English Literature, 1563-1694, pp. 84-116; 179-215. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
In the following essays, Knott claims that writings about early Protestant martyrs reveal a community with a common identity wherein the martyrs bond was strengthened by the suffering they shared for their faith; he then examines the impact of Protestant martyrology on the writings of John Bunyan.
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