John Foxe is renowned as the compiler of one of the most widely read, popular, and influential works of the Elizabethan Age: Acts and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Times. In 1563 John Day published the first of four editions that appeared in...

In 1795 the Dutch Republic was occupied by the French and finally collapsed. A Batavian Republic was founded in which the ties between church and state were severed, according to the principles of the French Revolution. All existing churches received...

John Foxe (1517[1]–April 18, 1587), martyrologist, is remembered as the author of what is popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, an account of Christian martyrs throughout history but especially emphasizing the sufferings of English...

It is little known that John Foxe's Book of Martyrs included stories of Jews. Contradictory and complex, Foxe's writings on Jews show how a powerful writer conceived of the place of Jews in a newly self-concious, Protestant English national identity amidst conflicting currents...

John Foxe: An Historical Perspective. Edited by David Loades. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1999. xii + 256 pp. $91.95 cloth. Seven years have passed since the inception of the John Foxe Project--a long-term plan to produce a critical edition of the Acts and...

Carolina Panthers all-time sacks leader Mike Rucker will miss the rest of the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.Rucker suffered the season-ending injury late in the first quarter of Sunday's loss to Pittsburgh, moments after being credited with a half...

Three men convicted of beating a gay man and then chasing him onto a highway where he was struck by a car and killed were sentenced to prison on Tuesday, prosecutors said.All three had been part of what prosecutors called a hate-inspired robbery scheme.On Oct....