Table of Contents

Introduction: John Foxe and the Editors, David Loades; fiction and fact in Foxe's "Book of Martyrs", John King; bibliographical aspects of John Foxe, Julian Roberts; shaping the reader in the "Acts and Monuments", Susan Felch; the iconography of the "Acts and Monuments", Margaret Aston, Elizabeth Ingram; 18-century Foxe - evidence for the impact of the "Acts and Monuments" in the "long" 18th century, Eirwen Nicholson; appropriating martyrdom - fears of renewed persecution and the 1632 edition of "Acts and Monuments", Damian Nussbaum; Jean Crespin and the first English martyrology of the Reformation, David Watson; from prophetic to apocalyptic - John Foxe and the writing of history, Tom Betteridge; "in a time of persecution" - new light on the secret Protestant congregation in Marian London, Brett Usher; John Foxe, the "Acts and Monuments" and the development of prophetic interpretation, Andrew Penny; Haemstede and Foxe, Andrew Pettegree; John Foxe, "father of lyes", and the Papists, Glyn Parry. Appendix - a finding list of extant 16th- and 17th-century editions of John Foxe's "Acts and Monuments", David Newcombe.