How long does it take to read Actes and Monuments?
Actes and Monuments by John Foxe takes about 10 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 48 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1563. 589 pages, about 161,975 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 89 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the church with an universal history of the same. Wherein is set forth at large, the whole race and course of the church, from the primitive age to these later times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubled, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ ... Whereunto are annexed certain additions of like persecutions which have happened in these later times. To which also is added the life of the author both in Latine and English." (Taken from the MARC record.)
Subjects: Martyrs, Christian martyrs, Chronology, Great Britain, Church history, Persecution