Preface List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Women among the Early Martyrs: Stuart G. Hall 2. Martyr Devotion in the Alexandrian School: Origen to Athanasius: John Anthony McGuckin 3. Martyrdom in East and West: the Sage of St George of Nobatia and England William H. C. Frend 4. Woman, Death and the Law during the Christian Persecutions: Chris Jones 5. Saint Eiluned of Brecon and her Cult: John A. F. Thomson: 6. Bede and the Martyrdom of St Oswald: Victoria A. Gunn 7. The Franks, the Martyrology of Usuard, and the Martyrs of Cordoba Janet L. Nelson 8. Martyrs on the Field of Battle before and during the First Crusade Colin Morris 9. The Idea of Innocent Martyrdom in Late Tenth and Eleventh Century English Hagiology: Paul A. Hayward 10. Boris and Gleb: Princely Martyrs and Martyrology in Kievan Russia R. M. Price 11. The Setting and Significance of the Becket Translation of 1220 Richard Eales 12. The Case of the Missing Martyrs: Frederick II's War with the Church, 1239-1250: G. A. Loud 13. Choosing Death? Experiences of Martyrdom in Late Medieval Europe: Miri Rubin 14. Medieval Heretics as Protestant Martyrs: Evan Cameron 15. Luther and the Problem of Martyrdom: David Bagchi 16. Martyrologies and Martyrs in the French Reformation: Heretics to Subversives in Troyes: Penny Roberts 17. Henry Bull, Miles Coverdale, and the Making of Foxe's Book of Martyrs Susan Wabuda 18. John Foxe and the Traitors: the Politics of the Marian Persecution David Loades 19. An Elizabethan Martyrologist and his Martyrs: John Mush and Margaret Clitherow: Claire Cross 20. The Scottish Reformation and the Theatre of Martyrdom: Jane E. A. Dawson 21. The Veneration of the Martyrs of Ikitsuki (1609-1645) by the Japanese 'Hidden Christians': Stephen Turnbull 22. Martyrology as Vindicator of Local Diversity in the Tridentine Church: Simon Ditchfield 23. Is Martyrdom Mandatory? Gottfried Arnold and the Fall of the Church: W. R. Ward 24. Martyrdom in Early Victorian Scotland: Disruption Fathers and the Making of the Free Church: Stewart J. Brown 25. The Making of an Anglican Martyr: Bishop John Coleridge Patteson of Melanesia: David Hilliard 26. The First Protestant Martyr of the Twentieth Century: the Life and Significance of John Kensit (1853-1902): Martin Wellings 27. Dom Bede Camm (1864-1942), Monastic Martyrologist: Dominic Aidan Bellenger 28. Reclaiming a Martyr: French Catholics and the Cult of Joan of Arc, 1890-1920 James F. McMillan 29. A Martyred Church: the Impact of the Revolution of 1917 on the Russian Orthodox Church: Simon Dixon 30. The Martyr Cult of the First World War: Gavin White 31. Martyrs for the Truth: Fundamentalists in Britain: D. W. Bebbington 32. Vivian Redlich, 1905-1942: a Martyr in the Tradition: Rachel Moriarty 33. `To Suffer Grief in all Kinds of Trials': Persecution and Martyrdom in the African Church in the Twentieth Century: David Killingray.