John Foxe

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Born:
Sept. 23, 1516
Died:
Sept. 23, 1587

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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

Books by John Foxe

John Fox, John Foxe: Foxe's book of martyrs (Paperback, 1998, F.H.Revell/Baker Book House) 3 stars

Foxe's book of martyrs

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John Foxe: Foxe's Book of Martyrs (Paperback, 2007, Apocryphile Press) 3 stars

Foxe's Book of Martyrs

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Daniel Defoe, William Shakespeare, John Gay, Francis Bacon, Piers Ploughman, John Skelton, Wyatt, Thomas Sir, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Thomas Nashe, Walter Raleigh, Robert Southwell, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Thomas Campion, Sir Thomas Hoby, Richard Hooker, Thomas Hariot, Ben Johnson, John Webster, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Crashaw, Richard, John Donne, Vaughan, Henry, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Carew, Edmund Waller, Suckling, John Sir, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Traherne, Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat, Stephen Greenblatt, William Congreve, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Anne Finch, Matthew Prior, Montagu, Mary Wortley Lady, Sir Richard Steele, Thomas Gray, William Collins, Christopher Smart, Oliver Goldsmith, James Boswell, George Crabbe, Thomas Hobbes, M. H. Abrams, Thomas Browne, Alexander Pope, Sir Isaac Newton, Joseph Addison, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Malory, Edmund Spenser, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Locke, Thomas More, Jonathan Swift, John Milton, James Thomson, Christopher Marlowe, Izaak Walton, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Samuel Butler, William Caxton, Robert Burton, John Bunyan, John Dryden, John Foxe, Samuel Pepys, Edmund Burke, Sir Philip Sidney, William Cowper: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1 (Paperback, 2000, W W Norton & Co Inc (Np)) 5 stars

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1

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John Foxe: Foxe's Book of Martyrs (2005) No rating

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