I’m just enjoying the audacity someone had to put “Foxes Book of Martyrs” on a website called “sacred-texts.com.”
What about Foxes work do you not like?..
Just a manner of fuelling a fire whose combustable materials are constantly running low.
My reading of it, is that the early Christian martyrs are reasonably well documented. The few chapters that deal with opposition to the Catholics are hysterical and shrill and bereft of much of the specific documentation that went in the early chapters.
They appeal to emotion; not to the intellect. How I would characterize the appeal of the Reformation to the masses; the appeal of the Reformation to the upper class was wealth and power.