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
Thirteenth Century
1Thirteenth Century2An Account of the Holy Baptism in the Thirteenth Century3Of the True Baptism4Summary of the Martyrs in the Thirteenth Century5Account Proper of the Holy Martyrs6Remarks in Regard to the Distinction of the People Called Albigenses Or…7Demonstration of a Plain Distinction Between the Albigenses and Their…8One Hundred and Eighty Persons Called Albigenses9Sixty Persons Called Albigenses10About One Hundred Persons Called Albigenses, or Heretics11Fifty Persons Called Albigenses12Over Four Hundred Persons Called Induti, or Albigenses, in the Year 121113Commencement Proper of the History of the Martyrs of This Century Great…14A Man Burnt Alive, at London, in the Year 121015Twenty Four Persons Burnt Alive for the Belief of the Waldenses, in the Year 121016About One Hundred Persons Called Waldenses, in the Year 121217Cruel Mode of Inquisition over the Doctrine of the Waldenses, in the Year 121418The Preceding Inquisition Continued19The Manner in which These Trials were Commenced in the Netherlands20About Eighty Persons Called Waldenses, in the Year 121521Several Christians Burned for the Faith, in the Year 121522Of Various Papal Statutes and Ordinances Instituted Against the Waldenses, in the Year 122923Severe Persecutions by the Inquisition in Germany, in the Year 123024Of the First Decree of Emperor Frederic the Second, in the Year 123025Of the Second Decree26Of the Third Decree of Emperor Frederic the Second Against the Aforementioned Persons, in the Year 123027Great Persecution in Germany of the Anabaptist Waldenses, in the Year 123128Nineteen Persons Called Waldenses, in the Year 123229Two Hundred and Twenty Four Persons, Called Waldenses, in the Year 124330Severe Inquisition of Believers in the Country Around Toulouse, in the Year 125131Continuation of the Preceding Inquisition in the Year 125232Of the Mandate of Pope Urban the Fourth Against the Waldenses and Albigenses in…, in the Year 126233Severe Persecution of the Anabaptist Waldenses in France, in the Year 128034Continuation of the Preceding Persecution, in the Year 128335Further Spreading of the Aforesaid Persecution, in the Year 128436Gerard Sagarellus, Burnt in the City of Parma, in the Year 128537Herman, Andrew and Guillemette* Exhumed and Burned, in the Year 1299