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Fires of Faith: John Foxe & his Book of Martyrs

John Foxe Reformer, Exile, Historian Contemporaries Writing History as it Happens Protestant Historians Early Versions of Foxe’s Book Latin, English; Revisions Later Editions of A & M Circumstances; Biases Foxe’s Use of Others Luther Appropriating History Foxe’s Political Agenda

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Fires of Faith: John Foxe & his Book of Martyrs

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  1. John Foxe Reformer, Exile, Historian Contemporaries Writing History as it Happens Protestant Historians Early Versions of Foxe’s Book Latin, English; Revisions Later Editions of A & M Circumstances; Biases Foxe’s Use of Others Luther Appropriating History Foxe’s Political Agenda Protestant Propaganda Fires of Faith: John Foxe & his Book of Martyrs Title Page from 1563 Edition

  2. John Foxe: b. 1516/7, d. 1587 Foxe’s Timeline Oxford Evangelical to International Protestant Reformer Anti-Catholic at Magdalen; Later Network Henry Bull, Hugh Latimer, William Cecil Translations of Lutheran Works Edwardian Writings on Canon Law (Cranmer) Exile L.C., Strasbourg; Troubles at Frankfurt; Basel Collaboration with John Bale; Matthias Flacius Historian English & Mainland European; Printed Works Long Reformation; Church Before Luther Foxe, 1587; NPG

  3. Foxe’s Contemporaries Writing History as it Happens Evidence Still Fresh Current Political Purposes Jean Crespin Huguenot Martyrologist Livre des Martyrs, 1554 Recueil de PlusieursPersonnes, 1555 Actiones et MonimentaMartyrum, ‘60 Johann Sleidan Lutheran Historian De StatuReligionis et Reipublicae, ’55 The Magdeburg Centuriators (Flacius, Wigand) EcclesiasticaHistorica, ‘59-74 Sleidan Translated, 1560

  4. Early Versions of Foxe’s Book Full Title of the First Edition: Actesand monuments of these latter and perillousdayes, touching matters of the Church, wherein ar comprehended and described the great persecutions [and] horrible troubles, that hauebene wrought and practised by the Romishe prelates, speciallye in this realme of England and Scotlande, from the yeare of our Lorde a thousande, vnto the tymenowe present. Gathered and collected according to the true copies [and] wrytingescertificatorie, as wel of the parties them selues that suffered, as also out of the bishops registers, which wer the doers therof, by Iohn Foxe. Latin 1554: CommentariiRerum in Ecclesia Gestarum 1559: Rerum in Ecclesia GestarumCommentarii Pan-European Context; Grindal (Germaniae ad AngliamGratulatio 1559, Anglo-German Relats.) English 1563: Massive Expansion; 1800 Pages To Wyclif and Beyond (Long Ref.) Pan-European Sources Revision 1570: Expanded; Parker; Official Status

  5. Later Editions of A & M 1576 Relatively Little Changes from 1570 More Oral History (Mary, ER) Further Reformation Frustration with Settlement 1583 Greatest Achievement Truly Massive Book (c. 2100 pages) More Archival & Oral Sources Circumstances Access to Official Information Network of Scholars Biases International Prot.; Chronology The End of William Tyndale; N.B. “Lord open the King of EnglandsEies.”

  6. Foxe’s Use of Others Translations of Luther Sermon on Matthew, 1548; Commentary on Galatians, 1575 Commentary on the 15 Psalms, 1577, From Foxe’s Preface: “Martin Luther, VVho although of many hitherto either hath not beeneredde, and so not throughlyknowne, or of a great number hated and maligned, or of some lightly regarded, or peraduenturemisiudged: Yet to such as either haueaduisedlyredd him, or shall be disposed to take trial of him, hauing by experience of infirmities and affliction any skill to iudge of true diuinitie, shall be foundeemonges many preachers & teachers of this our time, most chiefly worthie, not onely of iust commendation, but also to be compared with the chiefest: yea and so necessary for these times of the Church to be seene and redde . . . hauing here the boke of Martin Luther to reade and peruse. VVho as in his former treatise before set forth vppon the Epistle to the Galathians, so likewise in these his commentaries vppon the Psalmes, doth so liuely & at large discourse that matter, with many other things moe, full of heauenly instruction & edification, that hauing him, though thou hadst no other expositourvpon the holy Scripture, thou maisthaue almost sufficient to make a perfect souldier against all the fierie darts of the tempting enemie. Againe, hauingall other, and lacking this writer, thou shouldest yet want some thing to the perfect practise and experience of a Christian diuine.”

  7. Appropriating History Foxe’s Political Agenda Securing the Realm Patronage & Favor Warning against Mediocrity Forging the Protestant Nation International Statement Protestant Propaganda Converting the Infidels Official English History Unquestioned Authority Images for the Unlettered Practical & Personal Devotion Ridley & Latimer at Oxford, October 1555N.B. In the Distance is Cranmer, who Burned in March ‘56

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