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Author Foxe, John, 1516-1587

Title Foxe's Book of martyrs : select narratives / edited with an introduction and notes by John N. King
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (lviii, 332 pages) : illustrations
Series Oxford world's classics
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Contents FOXE'S BOOK OF MARTYRS; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Foxe's Life and Times; Explanatory Notes; Glossary of Words and Terms; Glossary of Persons; Glossary of Places; Concordance of Page References; Index; Biblical Texts Cited
Summary Foxe's Book of Martyrs is a collection of unforgettable accounts of religious persecution. This modernized selection brings together some of the most stirring tales of the interrogation and execution of heretics burnt at the stake in the reign of Mary, with some of the original woodcut illustrations and an illuminating introduction. - ;'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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Christian martyrs -- England -- History -- 16th century
RELIGION -- History.
Christian martyrs
SUBJECT England -- Church history -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043267
Subject England
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
Author King, John N., 1945-
ISBN 9780191567452
0191567450
0199236844
9780199236848
Other Titles Actes and monuments. Selections
Book of martyrs