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The Actes and Monuments (full title: Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, Touching Matters of the Church), popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, is a work of Protestant history and martyrology by Protestant English historian John Foxe, first published in 1563 by John Day.
John Foxe (1516 [1] /1517 – 18 April 1587) [2] was an English clergyman, [3] theologian, and historian, notable for his martyrology Actes and Monuments (otherwise known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs), telling of Christian martyrs throughout Western history, but particularly the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the 14th century and in the reign of Mary I.
John Day (or Daye) (c. 1522 [1] – 23 July 1584) was an English Protestant printer.He specialised in printing and distributing Protestant literature and pamphlets, and produced many small-format religious books, such as ABCs, sermons, and translations of psalms.
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Although the so-called "Marian Persecutions" began with four clergymen, relics of Edwardian England's Protestantism, [2]: 196 Foxe's Book of Martyrs offers an account of the executions, which extended well beyond the anticipated targets – high-level clergy. Tradesmen were also burned, as well as married men and women, sometimes in unison ...
"Barnes and his Fellow-Prisoners Seeking Forgiveness", from an 1887 edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs, illustrated by Kronheim. Robert Barnes (c. 1495 – 30 July 1540) was an English reformer and martyr.
In common with other printers and publishers of his time he also wrote and compiled books, most famously his martyrology, now popularly known as the Livre des Martyrs. This went through several editions between 1554 and 1570, under a variety of titles. Le Livre des Martyrs (Geneva, 1554)
The most influential of the local martyrologies is the martyrology commonly called Hieronymian, because it is (pseudepigraphically) attributed to Jerome.It was presumably drawn up in Italy in the second half of the fifth century, and underwent recension in Gaul, probably at Auxerre, in the late sixth. [2]