Fox's Book of Martyrs (Annotated)

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-This book contains a historical context, where past events or the study and narration of these events are examined. The historical context refers to the circumstances and incidents surrounding an event. This context is formed by everything that, in some way, influences the event when it happens. A fact is always tied to its time: that is, to its characteristics. Therefore, when analyzing events that took place tens, hundreds or thousands of years ago, it is essential to know the historical context to understand them. Otherwise, we would be analyzing and judging what happened in a totally different era with a current perspective. John Foxe repudiated the title 'martyrologist', the label most often attributed to his name, almost to the extent that it does not belong to any other English writer and reader of history. Foxe wanted to be known as a 'storyteller', that is, a historian. (How we distinguish between storytellers and historians, and even if we must make such a distinction, are questions to which we will have to return.) What was "history" for those who inhabited the sixteenth century? Until very recently, the standard accounts of 16th-century historiography were what historians, following Sir Herbert Butterfield, have learned to call "Whiggish," that is, largely progressive.