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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Contents
Old Book of the Martyrs Mirror: 1530s
1The Second Edict by Those of Zurich, in the Year 15302George Gruenwald, in the Year 15303Brother Alda, in the Year 15304Martin the Painter; Wolfgang Eslinger, Pain, Melchior, and Three Others, in the Year 15315Walter Mair, and Two Others, in the Year 15316George Zaunringerad, in the Year 15317Veit Pelgrims, at Glabbeck, in the Year 15328Lambrecht Gruber, Hans Beck, Laurence Schumacher, Peter Plaver, in the Year 15329Conrad Feichter, and Several Others, in the Year 153210Hugo Jacob Kraen, and his Wife Mary, in the Year 153211Ludwig Fest, in the Year 153312Christina Haring, in the Year 153313Sicke Snyder, in the Year 153314William Wiggers of Barsinghorn, in the Year 153415Of the Edict Issued by Emperor Charles the Fifth Against the Anabaptists, in the Year 153516Peter Koster, in the Year 153517Sybrant Jans, Hendrick Gijsbrechts van Campen, Stephen Benedictus, Femmetgen, Daughter of Egbert, and Welmut, Daughter of Jans18Andrew Claessen of Drourijp, in the Year 153519Further Observation20Seven Brothers, in the Year 153621Peter Gerrits, Peter Joris, Peter Leydecker, and Johanna Mels, in the Year 153622Jerome Kels, Michael Seifensieder, and Hans Oderacker, in the Year 153623George Vaser, and Leonhard Sailer, in the Year 153624Further Account of George Vaser, in the Year 153725Sebastian Glasmacher and Hans Gruenfelder, in the Year 153726Hans Peiz, and Some Others, in the Year 153727Hans Wucherer, and Hans Bartel, in the Year 153728Philip de Keurs, in the Year 153729Twelve Persons, Men and Women, in the Year 153830Leonhard Lochmair, and Offrus Greizinger, in the Year 153831Michael Wideman or Beck, in the Year 153832Martin of Vilgraten, and Caspar Schumacher, in the Year 153833John Styaerts, and Peter, in the Year 153834Hans Seyel, and Hans of Wels, in the Year 153835Of a Certain Decree Published in England Against the Anabaptists, in the Year 1538, and What Followed Thereupon, in the Year 153936Apollonia, Wife of Leonhard Seyle, in the Year 153937Great Persecution in Austria, in the Year 153938Anna of Rotterdam, Put to Death in that Place, in the Year 153939Tjaert Reynerts, in the Year 153940Arent Jacobs, with his Wife and Eldest Son, in the Year 1539