SOURCE: Collinson, Patrick. “Truth, Lies, and Fiction in Sixteenth-century Protestant Historiography.” In The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain: History, Rhetoric, and Fiction, 1500-1800, edited by Donald R. Kelley and David Harris Sacks, pp. 37-68. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
In the following essay, Collinson analyzes the controversy surrounding Foxe's work, focusing on issues of veracity in the text.
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