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- The depiction of Catholic cruelty and evangelical endurance in both Foxe’s text and the many woodcut illustrations that accompanied it shaped generations of English Protestants’ understanding of their own past and identity.
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The Actes and Monuments (full title: Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, Touching Matters of the Church), popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, is a work of Protestant history and martyrology by Protestant English historian John Foxe, first published in 1563 by John Day.
John Foxe was an English Puritan preacher and author of The Book of Martyrs, a graphic and polemic account of those who suffered for the cause of Protestantism. Widely read, often the most valued book beside the Bible in the households of English Puritans, it helped shape popular opinion about
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Apr 10, 2020 · Foxe’s Book of Martyrs is one of the great classics of Christianity, detailing the history of Christian persecution from the earliest days of the church to the Protestant Reformation.
among English Protestants in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries than John Foxe's "Book of Martyrs." First published in English in 1563, the book went through four editions during Foxe's lifetime, and nine by 1684. Foxe's work provided the most complete, perhaps the most con-vincing, and certainly the most absorbing account of the Marian ...
More materially, Foxe was, at least initially, but one member of a Protestant network actively committed to recovering and recording the history of the Marian persecution and the monuments of its martyrs, a collective that included Edmund Grindal, Miles Coverdale, Latimer's servant Augustine Bernher, and the neglected Henry Bull, Foxe's ...
A popular success during the author’s lifetime, and the most popular book in English puritan households after the Bible, John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments (known almost immediately and universally as the 'Book of Martyrs') had a colossal impact on English Protestantism for.
John Foxe (1516 [1] /1517 – 18 April 1587) [2] was an English clergyman, [3] theologian, and historian, notable for his martyrology Actes and Monuments (otherwise Foxe's Book of Martyrs), telling of Christian martyrs throughout Western history, but particularly the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the 14th century ...
