Actes and monuments
by John Foxe
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"Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the church with an universal history of the same. Wherein is set forth at large, the whole race and course of the church, from the primitive age to these later times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubled, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ ... Whereunto are annexed certain additions of like persecutions which have happened in these later times. To which also is added the life of the author both in Latine and English." (Taken from the [MARC record][1].) [1]: http://upstream.openlibrary.org/show-marc/talis_openlibrary_contribution/talis-openlibrary-contribution.mrc:2782072066:1297
Themes & subjects
MartyrsChristian martyrsChronologyEarly works to 1800Great BritainChurch history
First published 1563Characters & people
Setting
EnglandGreat BritainScotland1066-148516th centuryEarly church, ca. 30-600Middle Ages, 600-1500Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
About the author
John Foxe
1516 – 1587
John Foxe (1516/17 – 18 April 1587) was an English historian and martyrologist, the author of Actes and Monuments (popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs), an account of Christian martyrs throughout Western history, but emphasizing the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the 14th century through the reign of Mary I. Widely owned and read by English Puritans, the book helped to mould British popular opinion about the Catholic Church for several centuries
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