An edition of Actes and monuments (1563)
Book of martyrs
A history of the lives, suffering, and triumphant deaths of the primitive as well as Protestant martyrs: from the commencement of Christianity, to the latest periods of pagan and popish persecution. To which is added, an account of the Inquisition, the Bartholomew massacre, in France, the general persecution under Louis XIV, the massacre in the Irish rebellion...1641, and the recent persecutions of the Protestants in the south of France...
By John Foxe
Publish Date
1833
Publisher
E. Hall
Language
eng
Pages
589
Description:
"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
subjects: Martyrs, Christian martyrs, Chronology, Early works to 1800, Great Britain, Church history, Persecution, Reformation, Martyrologies, Biography, History, Studies, Controversial literature, Catholic Church, Foxe, john, 1516-1587, Portraits, Christian biography, Long Now Manual for Civilization
People: John Foxe (1516-1587)
Places: England, Great Britain, Scotland
Times: 1066-1485, 16th century, Early church, ca. 30-600, Middle Ages, 600-1500, Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600