Keyword: Self-Sacrifice
Samson Destroying the Temple [1550 - 1560]
National Gallery of Arts, Washington DC
Sacred Pain Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul
Oxford: Oxford University Press, .
The Fatal Sacrifice (18th Century)
Wellcome Collection, London
Simulazione e autolesionismo. Dalla medicina civile a quella militare, tra Ottocento e Grande Guerra
in: Storica, v. 83/84 (2022), issue 28: pp.129-157.
The Death of Mūsā al-Kāzim (d.183-799). Knowledge and Suicide in Early Twelver Shī'ism
in: Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Immolation: Religious Perspectives on Suicide, pp. 106-125
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Les Veuves de Malabar: Sati, Colonialism, and the Enlightment
in: French Theatre, Orientalism, and the Representation of India, 1770-1865, pp. 19-71
Abingdon - New York: Routledge, 2021.
Samson Shattering the Pillars of the Temple [1550 - 1560]
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Self-sacrifice in Vedic Ritual
in: Gilgul: Essays on Transformation, Revolution, and Permanence in the history of religion, pp.
Leiden: Brill, 1987.
Samson breaks down the pillars of the temple and kills the Philistines and himself. (1547)
Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
Sacrificed Wife, Sacrificer's Wife: Women, Ritual, and Hospitality in Ancient India
New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Sterben für den Buddha, Sterben wie der Buddha: Zu Praxis und Begründung ritueller Suizide im ostasiatischen Buddhismus
in: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft, v. 11 (2003), issue : pp.3-43.
Surā, the liquor and the Vedic sacrifice
New Delhi: D.K. Printworld, 1999.
The death of Samson; pushing two columns of the Philistine temple; a large number of Philistines falling from or being crushed by the collapsing building (1550)
from: Probably an illustration to Hans Lufft's High German Bible, printed in Wittenberg, 1550
The British Museum, London
Thomas Wentworth Speaks before His Execution (1701)
from: Ludolff, Hiob. Allgemeine Schau-Bühne der Welt, oder: Beschreibung der vornehmsten Welt-Geschichte. Deel II, Frankfurt am Main, Johann David Zunnern, 1701, vol. 2, p. 905
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Immolations in Japan
in: Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, v. 25 (2012), issue : pp.191-201.
Samson destroys the temple (1270-1274)
from: Psautier dit de saint Louis
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms Latin 10525, fol. 62