https://earlymoderneurope.hist.sites.carleton.edu/files/original/ecb4b29251b11c1bdfed1e8adc437062.jpg 71742ddac6f487d560a87001910b48cf Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Foxe's Book of Martyrs Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Photo: Wellcome Collection https://wellcomecollection.org/works/t4q4gswu Foxe, John. Book of Martyrs. Edited by William Byron Forbush, Christian Classics Ethereal Library, http://www.ccel.org/f/foxe/martyrs/home.html. Wiesner-Hanks, Merry. Early Modern Europe: 1450-1789. Cambridge University Press, 2013. Print. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Free to use with attribution (CC BY 4.0). Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource John Foxe Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Cassidy Bins Description An account of the resource The image selected is an engraving of two scenes from John Foxe's Book of Martyrs. The book was originally printed via woodcut, a method of printmaking in which blocks of wood were engraved to depict a certain scene, covered with ink, and then pressed to paper. Foxe’s work was universal in the sense that the illustrations, gruesome as they were, allowed for the illiterate to fully comprehend the scope of the violence inflicted upon Protestant martyrs. The book is a response to the brutality of the Protestant Reformation (particularly under Catholic Mary Tudor's reign from 1553-8), as well as an informative and instigative tool for those who took issue with the encroachment of Catholicism upon England (Wiesner-Hanks, 9). So many Protestants were killed during this time that John Foxe began to catalogue their deaths via printmaking. Evidently in favor of the Church of England, Foxe's book remained a fixture of the English Reformation, which sought to divert Roman Catholic authority from the crown. Foxe’s Book of Martyrs exists now, as it did then, as a record of Protestant persecution: it clues readers in to one aspect of the greater religious conflicts of the Reformation years. Moreover, Foxe’s perspective represents that of a learned Protestant (learned in the sense that he studied the classics) moved to action such that he worked to disseminate all that he had witnessed across borders -- not only does he relate stories of violence from England, but the book’s twenty-two chapters cover Germany, the Netherlands, and French Protestants. In essence, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs is a prominent example of art/literature created to convey a specific religious and political message. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1563