Foxe’s Book of Martyrs

Summary

“This is a book which will never die—one of the greatest Christian classics. As interesting as fiction, it is written with both passion and tenderness, telling the dramatic story of some of the most thrilling periods in Christian history. Presented here in its most complete form, it brings to life the days when ‘a noble army, men and boys, the matron and the maid…climbed the steep ascent of heaven, amid peril, toil, and pain.’

“After the Bible itself, no book so profoundly influenced early Protestant sentiment as the Book of Martyrs. Even in our time it is still a living force. More than a record of persecution, it is an arsenal of controversy, a storehouse of romance, and a source of edification.”—James Miller Dodds, English Prose

This collection includes treatises on the following:

1. The Persecution of the Early Christians
2. Constantine the Great
3. John Wickliff
4. Sir John Oldcaste, Lord Cobham
5. John Huss
6. William Tyndale
7. Martin Luther
8. John Hooper
9. Rowland Taylor
10. The Martyrs of Scotland
11. Hugh Latimer
12. Bishop Ridley
13. The Trial, Condemnation, and Martyrdom of Ridley and Latimer
14. The Fires of Smithfield
15. Thomas Cranmer
16. Anecdotes and Sayings of Other Martyrs