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'''Foxe's Book of Martyrs''' is the popular title of John Foxe's '''''The Actes and Monuments'''''. It is a [[polemic]]al work of [[Protestant Reformation|Protestant history]] and [[martyr]]ology, first published in English in 1563 by John Day, the same year that the [[Council of Trent]] was concluded. It presents an overview of the history of Christian persecutions, beginning with the [[Early Christianity|early Christians]], through the [[Middle Ages]], with praise for the [[Albigensians]] and the [[Waldensians]], and 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, especially the claim that the [[Catholic Church]] was founded by the [[Devil]], resists the truth of God, opposes the [[Bible]], and teaches [[Paganism|pagan]] doctrines of devils from the pit of hell. 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 almost immediately to an abbreviated '''''Book of Martyrs'''''.

'''Foxe's Book of Martyrs''' is the popular title of John Foxe's '''''The Actes and Monuments'''''. (Foxe stoutly rejected the popular title.) It is a [[polemic]]al work of [[Protestant Reformation|Protestant history]] and [[martyr]]ology, first published in English in 1563 by John Day, the same year that the [[Council of Trent]] was concluded. It presents an overview of the history of Christian persecutions, beginning with the [[Early Christianity|early Christians]], through the [[Middle Ages]], with praise for the [[Albigensians]] and the [[Waldensians]], and 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, especially the claim that the [[Catholic Church]] was founded by the [[Devil]], resists the truth of God, opposes the [[Bible]], and teaches [[Paganism|pagan]] doctrines of devils from the pit of hell. 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 almost immediately to an abbreviated '''''Book of Martyrs'''''.

==Critical response==

==Critical response==