ABSTRACT
Patrick Collinson's consideration of John Foxe and national consciousness incorporates an overview of the field of Foxe studies, and David Loades's afterword on the reception history and editing of the Book of Martyrs. David Kastan's "Little Foxes" focuses on the importance of book format in considering the iconic status of the Book of Martyrs, whose massive folio volumes constituted a visible monument that was as much "an object to be looked upon as a text to be read". Kastan considers the publication of a series of abridgments that placed this extraordinarily expensive book within the reach of a broad audience. The Afterword by David Loades, "John Foxe in the Twenty-First Century", brings John Foxe and his World to a close. He focuses on the reception history of the Book of Martyrs, which buttressed the 1559 settlement of religion by demonizing the Roman Church as a persecutor of faithful Christians.
