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Acts And Monuments Of The Church
The ''Actes and Monuments'' (full title: ''Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, Touching Matters of the Church''), popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, is a work of History of Protestantism, Protestant history and martyrology by Protestant English historian John Foxe, first published in 1563 by John Day (printer), John Day. It includes a polemical account of the sufferings of Protestants under the Catholic Church, with particular emphasis on England and Scotland. The book was highly influential in those countries and helped shape lasting popular notions of Catholicism there. The book went through four editions in Foxe's lifetime and a number of later editions and abridgements, including some that specifically reduced the text to a ''Book of Martyrs''. Introduction The book was produced and illustrated with over sixty distinctive woodcut impressions and was to that time the largest publishing project ever undertaken in England. (Common descriptions in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Day (printer)
John Day (or Daye) ( – 23 July 1584) was an English Protestantism, Protestant printer (publisher), printer. He specialised in printing and distributing Protestant literature and pamphlets, and produced many small-format religious books, such as Alphabet book, ABCs, sermons, and translations of psalms. He found fame, however, as the publisher of John Foxe's ''Actes and Monuments'', also known as the Foxe's Book of Martyrs, ''Book of Martyrs'', the largest and most technologically accomplished book printed in sixteenth-century England. Day rose to the top of his profession during the reign of Edward VI of England, Edward VI (1547–1553). At this time, restrictions on publishers were relaxed, and a wave of propaganda on behalf of the English Reformation was encouraged by the government of the Lord Protector, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset. During the reign of the Catholic Mary I of England, Queen Mary I, many Protestant printers fled to the continent, but Day stayed in Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
