John Foxe (1516/17 – 18 April 1587) was an English historian and martyrologist, the author of Actes and Monuments (popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs), an account of Christian martyrs throughout Western history, but emphasizing the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the 14th century through the reign of Mary I. Widely owned and read by English Puritans, the book helped to mould British popular opinion about the Catholic Church for several centuries
John Foxe
Author details
- Born:
- Sept. 23, 1516
- Died:
- Sept. 23, 1587
External links
Books by John Foxe
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1
by Daniel Defoe, William Shakespeare, John Gay, and 71 others