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Foxe's Book of Martyrs (Illustrated Christian Classics)

John Foxe

When one recollects that until the appearance of Pilgrims Progress, the Common People had almost no other reading matter except the Bible and Foxes Book of Martyrs, which is why Foxes made such a deep impression and how it served to mould the national character. After the Bible itself, no book so pr...

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The Rest Is History

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The Rest Is History

The hosts described it as the Tudor bestseller, noting its full historic title and its role as a foundational text on English martyrs.

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So that was the Tudor number one bestseller, the thrillingly titled Acts and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days, Touching Matters of the Church. And it was by an unusually forensic and judici...

— Episode: 618. Elizabeth I: The Shadow of the Towe...

Episode: 618. Elizabeth I: The Shadow of the Tower (Part 3)

The hosts described it as the Tudor bestseller, noting its full historic title and its role as a foundational text on English martyrs.

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So that was the Tudor number one bestseller, the thrillingly titled Acts and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days, Touching Matters of the Church. And it was by an unusually forensic and judicious historian, John Fox, a man of Lincolnshire, hence the accent.

Fox's Book of Martyrs, as its name suggests, there are lots of people who will be prepared to go to the stake.

Fox's Book of Martyrs ... the great tyranny of Bloody Mary's reign.

Episode: 212. Haunted London (Part 4)

They referred to Foxe's Book of Martyrs as a source for the theme of religious persecution, noting its influence on the memory of Bloody Mary's victims.

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the great theme of fox's book of martyrs this sense that the revival of catholicism would mean protestants being burnt in smithfield...

Episode: 115. The Gunpowder Plot

The hosts referenced Foxe's Book of Martyrs as a massive saga portraying Protestant martyrs slain by Catholic persecutors.

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There's this sense of Fox's Book of Martyrs, which is this huge saga of sort of Protestant martyrs being killed by evil Catholics.

We Can Do Hard Things

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We Can Do Hard Things

It's about a boy trying to figure out if he's a nihilist or will choose life, and is described as utterly gorgeous.

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Oh my God. Everyone must go get the book Martyr. I want to read it.

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It's about a boy trying to figure out if he's a nihilist or will choose life, and is described as utterly gorgeous.

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Oh my God. Everyone must go get the book Martyr. I want to read it.

So it's about this boy who's trying to kind of figure out whether he's a nihilist or is going to choose life in a million different ways and it's utterly gorgeous.

KSR

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KSR

Matt Jones listed the title among his recent reads, noting that he had read it earlier in the year. In a later episode he said he had finished it just two weeks prior and highly recommended it to everyone. The host’s remarks highlighted the book’s impact and suggested it was worth reading.

Highly Recommended

Episode: 2025-08-14- KSR - Hour 2

The host listed it among his recent reads, mentioning he had read the book during the year.

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Martyr, Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. I read that one.

Episode: 2025-02-10- KSR - Hour 1

The speaker mentioned reading it two weeks earlier and highly recommended it.

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I read a book two weeks ago named Martyr, M-A-R-T-Y-R. Highly recommend it to everybody.

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

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The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

This was a book about Protestant suffering at the hands of Catholics. It was read by Ann and her siblings.

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And of course Fox's book of martyrs, all the greats, all the Fox business.

— Episode: 640 - Anne Hutchinson

Episode: 640 - Anne Hutchinson

This was a book about Protestant suffering at the hands of Catholics. It was read by Ann and her siblings.

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And of course Fox's book of martyrs, all the greats, all the Fox business.

Fox book of martyrs was a book about Protestant suffering at the hands of Catholics.

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