ABSTRACT
What did John Foxe try to achieve by writing an ecclesiastical history that looked back to the early church and one that tried to explore the rise and fall of the Roman Church to the power of Antichrist and Satan? This chapter examines the protocols and methodologies that Foxe used to compile his history in the Acts and Monuments and examine what we have learned by looking at the sources. How did the framework of ecclesiastical history affect him? What was the importance of prophecy in history, and how did this influence Foxe’s sense of the past? Furthermore, how was the book written? Foxe was not alone in its creation. This chapter also outlines the collaborative process involved in writing a history of this size and complexity.
