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Foxe's Book of Martyrs: Select Narratives
Foxe's Book of Martyrs: Select Narratives

Foxe's Book of Martyrs: Select Narratives

Author: 
John Foxe; Mr 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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About the author: 

John N. King is editor of Reformation and co-editor of Literature and History. His publications include English Reformation History: The Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition (Princeton UP, 1982), Milton and Religious Controversy: Satire and Polemic in Paradise Lost (CUP, 2000), and Foxe's Book of Martyrs and Early Modern Print Culture (CUP, 2006).

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ISBN : 9780199236848

Author: 
John Foxe; Mr John N. King
Pages
400 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
128 x 196 mm
Pub date
Mar 2009
Series
Oxford World's Classics
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Foxe's Book of Martyrs: Select Narratives

Foxe's Book of Martyrs: Select Narratives

Foxe's Book of Martyrs: Select Narratives