Details About Foxe's Book of Martyrs
What is Foxe's Actes and Monuments?
Foxe's Actes and Monuments was a foundation stone of English protestant nationalism. Over twenty-five years, and in more than 2,500,000 words, Foxe put together his history of the church (mainly but not exclusively the church in England), in order to demonstrate that protestantism was the true faith. His message shaped English religious and political consciousness for centuries to come, with enormous consequences. And the book was second only to the vernacular Bible as a formative influence on English language and culture.
Why are we producing an edition on CD-ROM?
Access to satisfactory versions of this crucial work has been almost impossible; the great nineteenth-century editions are textual jumbles. The 1583 edition was the last for which Foxe was personally responsible. Later editors had little compunction about introducing alterations into Foxe's text. They inserted new translations of Anglo-Saxon, Greek and Latin documents, altered the sense of passages to suit their own purposes and added their own pious comments in support of Foxe's interpretations.
Only about forty original copies of Foxe's edition survive and none is perfect; microfilm copies have reflected or even aggravated omissions and imperfections.
Assembled from two originals, this facsimile on CD-ROM provides the only complete version available.
What does the CD-ROM version contain?
The title is a combination of the 2,200 pages of text and woodcuts from the complete edition, as well as a searchable transcription of Foxe's own index for each of the pages. This enables easy searching and browsing of the edition as well as providing a complete table of contents.
There are also several other features which makes the CD-ROM simple and effective to use.
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