5/22/2023 0 Comments Fox's Book of Martyrs by John Foxe![]() ![]() While Foxe was by no means an impartial writer, and his presentation of history is selective and peppered with comment, his access to the evidence from very recent trials and eye-witness accounts renders his work generally reliable. The first edition of his book, in Latin, was published in 1559, and contained little information about the recent Protestant martyrs, whose stories were included in the much fuller edition published in English in 1563. ![]() As a Protestant in exile in Germany he continued writing, as news of the persecutions in England reached him. His first studies were of the early Christian martyrs, the victims of the Inquisition, and the followers of Wycliffe and Tyndale, who supported the reading of the Bible in English. Reprinted here in its most complete form, it brings to life the days when 'a noble. ![]() Edited by William Byron Forbush This is a book that will never die - one of the great English classics. ![]() It had a great influence on popular opinion with regard to Catholicism over the following centuries, providing support for the legal oppression of Catholics until the 19th century.įoxe began his work before Catholic Mary’s reign and the persecution of the Protestants. John Fox's famous book detailing the lives, sufferings and triumphant deaths of the early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs. Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017. John Foxe’s survey of Christian martyrs throughout history laid strong emphasis on those who had died for their faith during the reign of Queen Mary (1553-58), and was widely read during the 16th and 17th centuries. Foxs Book of Martyrs, or the Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church: Being a Complete History of the Lives, Sufferings. ![]()
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