Foxe's Book of Martyrs

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John Foxe
Edited by John N. King

Oxford World's Classics

Foxe's hugely influential Book of Martyrs is a vast record of the martyrdom suffered by hundreds of Protestants, burnt alive for their beliefs during the reign of Mary I. This selection brings together some of the most famous and affecting narratives to provide a sensational window into early modern English history.
The most accurate and readable abridgement available, this modernized edition is based on a new transcription of the last edition overseen by John Foxe. It includes a full introduction to Foxe and his times, the religious conflicts, and the nature of martyrological narratives.
Includes 21 of the original woodcut illustrations depicting martyrs at the stake and being tortured.
Includes the accounts of the deaths of Latimer, Ridley, and Cranmer as well as graphic stories of the hunting, capture, torture and deaths for heresy of ordinary men and women.
Includes glossaries of people, places, and words, a general index, and notes explaining allusions and identifying scriptural quotations.

Foxe's Book of Martyrs

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John Foxe
Edited by John N. King

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'Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man: we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as, I trust, shall never be put out.'

Hugh Latimer's famous words of consolation to Nicholas Ridley as they are both about to be burnt alive for heresy come from John Foxe's magisterial Acts and Monuments, popularly known as the Book of Martyrs. This vast collection of unforgettable accounts of religious persecution exerted as great an influence on early modern England and New England as the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. It contains many stirring stories of the apprehension, interrogation, imprisonment, and execution of alleged heretics. The narratives not only attest to the fortitude of individuals who suffered for their faith not many years before the birth of Shakespeare, but they also constitute exciting tales filled with graphic details and verbal wit.

This modernized selection also includes some of the famous woodcuts that illustrated the original text, as well as providing a comprehensive introduction to Foxe's life and times and the martyrology narrative.
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Foxe's Book of Martyrs

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John Foxe
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Introduction
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Chronology of Foxe's Life and Times
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1:Thomas Bilney
2:William Tyndale
3:Anne Askew
4:John Roger
5:Lawrence Sanders
6:John Hooper
7:Rowland Taylor
8:Thomas Tomkins
9:William Hunter
10:Rawlins White
11:George Marsh
12:Thomas Haukes
13:John Bradford and John Leaf
14:Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley
15:Stephen Gardiner
16:John Philpot
17:Bartlett Green
18:Thomas Cranmer
19:The Guernsey Martyrs
20:Joan Waste
21:William Dangerfield
22:Richard Woodman
23:Rose Allin and other Colchester Martyrs
24:George Eagles
25:The Islington Martyrs
26:Prest's Wife
27:Edwin Sandys
28:Lady Elizabeth
29:Judgement Tales
Explanatory Notes
Glossary of Persons
Glossary of Places
Glossary of Words and Terms
Index

Foxe's Book of Martyrs

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John Foxe
Edited by John N. King

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John Foxe

Edited by John N. King, Distinguished University Professor and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies, Ohio State University