The
Actes and Monuments, popularly known as
Foxe's Book of Martyrs, is a work of
Protestant history and
martyrology by
John Foxe, first published in English in 1563 by
John Day. It 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. 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 to a
Book of Martyrs.