Foxe's Book of Martyrs

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:book
gptkbp:alternativeName gptkb:Acts_and_Monuments_of_these_Latter_and_Perilous_Days
gptkb:Foxe's_Martyrs
gptkbp:author gptkb:John_Foxe
gptkbp:contains gptkb:historical_documents
illustrations
testimonies
accounts of executions
biographies of martyrs
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:England
gptkbp:dedicatedTo gptkb:Queen_Elizabeth_I
gptkbp:expandedEditions 1576
1583
1570
gptkbp:firstPublished gptkb:John_Day
gptkbp:genre gptkb:martyrdom
history
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Foxe's Book of Martyrs
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:English_Protestantism
English literature
perceptions of Catholicism in England
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:libraryOfCongressControlNumber 2003556442
gptkbp:mediaType gptkb:print
digital
gptkbp:notableFor anti-Catholic sentiment
documenting persecution of Protestants
impact on English national identity
influence on English Protestantism
gptkbp:numberOfVolumes 2
gptkbp:originalTitle gptkb:Actes_and_Monuments
gptkbp:period gptkb:Middle_Ages
gptkb:Reformation
early Christian era
gptkbp:publicationDate 1563
gptkbp:relatedEvent gptkb:English_Reformation
gptkb:Marian_Persecutions
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:William_Tyndale
gptkb:Thomas_Cranmer
gptkb:Hugh_Latimer
gptkb:Nicholas_Ridley
gptkbp:relatedWork The Book of Martyrs (various editions)
gptkbp:setting gptkb:England
gptkb:Europe
gptkbp:significance required reading in English churches
shaped English Protestant identity
source for anti-Catholic polemic
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Protestant_Reformation
gptkb:saint
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Thomas_Cranmer
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4