Foxe started publishing works of religious controversy and worked on a new martyrology , which would become the Foxe 's Book of Martyrs . It was not until J. F. Mozley published John Foxe and His Book in 1940 that Foxe 's rehabilitation as a historian began , initiating a controversy that has continued to that present . Recently , renewed interest in Foxe as a seminal figure in early modern studies created a demand for a new critical edition of the Actes and Monuments , Foxe 's Book of Martyrs Variorum Edition .