Martyrs Mirror: A Social History

Approximately 2,500 Anabaptists were martyred in sixteenth— and early seventeenth—century Europe. Their surviving brethren compiled stories of those who suffered and died for the faith into martyr books. The most historically and culturally significant of these, The Bloody Theater—more commonly known as Martyrs Mirror—was assembled by the Dutch Mennonite minister Thieleman van Braght and published in 1660. Today, next to the Bible, i...