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What Renaissance text uses martyrology as a device to historicize the conflict between the true Church and the false Church in England ?

Correct answer: D. "Acts and Monuments"

  • A. "Euphues"
  • B. "Paradise Lost"
  • C. "Paradise Regained"
  • D. "Acts and Monuments"

Explanation

John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments, commonly called the Book of Martyrs, uses Protestant martyrology to narrate the struggle between the true Church and the Church of Rome. The other works do not serve this historical religious purpose.

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