The Bloody Theater, or Martyrs Mirror, in plain modern English: edited chapter for chapter from the 1886 translation, with every scripture reference and abbreviation spelled out so it can be read aloud. The unaltered 1886 text is on the shelf as Martyrs Mirror.
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Old Book of the Martyrs Mirror: 1520s
1Old Book of the Martyrs Mirror2Martyrs Mirror of the Defenseless Christians3Hans Koch and Leonhard Meister, Descendants of the Ancient Waldenses, in the Year 15244Prayer of Hans Koch and Leonhard Meister5Caspar Tauber, in the Year 15246Of a Certain Decree which Those of Zuerich Published Against the Anabaptists, in the Year 15257Felix Mantz, in the Year 15268George Wagner, in the Year 15279Melchior Vet10Michael Sattler, in the Year 152711Articles or Charges Against Michael Sattler12A Letter Written by Michael Sattler13Leonhard Keyser, in the Year 152714Further Observation Concerning the Death of Leonhard Keyser15Thomas Hermann, and Sixty-Seven Others, in the Year 152716Weynken, a Widow, Daughter of Claes, of Monickendam, in the Year 152717John Walen, with Two of his Fellow Brothers, in the Year 152718Leonhard Schoener, in the Year 152819Hans Schlaeffer and Leonhard Frick20Leopold21Eighteen Persons Burned at Salzburg22Wolfgang Ulman, in the Year 152823Hans Pretle, in the Year 152824Little Hans of Stotzingen, in the Year 152825Thomas, Balthasar, and Dominicus, in the Year 152826Hans Feierer, with Five Brothers and Three Sisters, in the Year 152827Three Brothers and Two Sisters, in the Year 152828Nine Brothers and Three Sisters, in the Year 152829Vilgard and Caspar of Schoeneck30Six Persons at Basel, in the Year 152931Hans Langmantel with his Manservant and Maidservant, in the Year 152932George Blaurock, and Hans van der Reve, in the Year 152933Here Follows Another Consolatory Admonition Left by George Blaurock to His…34Vigil Plaitner, in the Year 152935Louis, and Two Others, in the Year 152936John Hut, in the Year 152937Wolfgang Brandhuber, Hans Niedermair, and Many Others, in the Year 152938Carius Prader, with Several Other Persons, in the Year 152939Seven Brothers, in the Year 152940Anna of Freiburg, in the Year 152941Daniel Kopf, with Two Brothers and Four Sisters, in the Year 152942Four Brothers and Four Sisters43Anna Maler, and Ursula, in the Year 152944Nine Brothers, Several Sisters, and Another Sister, in the Year 152945Two Other Brothers, and Two Sisters, in the Year 152946About Three Hundred and Fifty Persons Put to Death for the Faith, Near Altzey, in the Year 152947Philip of Langenlonsheim, in the Year 152948George Bauman, in the Year 1529