Foxe's Book of Martyrs Select Narratives

Name: Foxe's Book of Martyrs Select Narratives
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ISBN: 9780199236848

ISBN-10: 0199236844

ISBN-13: 9780199236848

Edition: 2009

Authors: John Foxe, 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. Based on a new transcription…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Introduction


Select Bibliography


Chronology of Foxe's Life and Times


Select Narratives



Thomas Bilney



William Tyndale



Anne Askew



John Roger



Lawrence Sanders



John Hooper



Rowland Taylor



Thomas Tomkins



William Hunter



Rawlins White



George Marsh



Thomas Haukes



John Bradford and John Leaf



Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley



Stephen Gardiner



John Philpot



Bartlett Green



Thomas Cranmer



The Guernsey Martyrs



Joan Waste



William Dangerfield



Richard Woodman



Rose Allin and other Colchester Martyrs



George Eagles



The Islington Martyrs



Prest's Wife



Edwin Sandys



Lady Elizabeth



Judgement Tales


Explanatory Notes


Glossary of Persons


Glossary of Places


Glossary of Words and Terms


Index