Topic: 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16th-18th Century)
Religious sacrifices across various cultures and contexts sparked widespread interest in Early Modern Europe. As Christianity expanded into regions inhabited by "infidels" and "pagans", Europeans encountered a diverse array of sacrificial customs, ranging from the Sati rituals in India to the Aztec sacrifices in the Americas. This cross-cultural exposure captivated a wide audience, including theologians, philosophers, political thinkers, antiquarians, orientalists, missionaries, poets, artists, and even the general public. These encounters broadened the European understanding of sacrifice and led to a critical reassessment of classical and biblical sacrificial rites. This section includes:
- Sources: A selection of early modern printed materials, which include descriptions of the Americas, Asia, and Africa, alongside antiquarian and philological studies on religious sacrifice in classical antiquity and beyond. It also presents early modern works of ethnological observations and the first attempts to compare different sacrificial practices in various traditions and contexts, laying the groundwork for disciplines like the history of religions and anthropology.
- Iconographic Representations: A rich collection of images from the 16th to 18th centuries, illustrating a range of sacrificial rituals and practices as seen in different cultural and geographical contexts.
- Related Bibliography: An extensive bibliography spanning scholarly works from the 19th to 21st centuries, providing contemporary analyses and interpretations of these early studies and observations.
Codex Magliabecchiano
: , [1526] - [1550].
Descrizione della presente figura mandata in Roma da un missionario apostolico della Cina con le cirimonie, che si praticano nel solenne sacrificio di Confucio: cavata dall'articolo 4 dei quesiti decisi dalla Santità di N.S. Clemente 11. il dì 20. novembre 1704
n. p.: n. p., [1704].
Relación verdadera en que se da cuenta muy por extenso del modo que tienen de vivir assi Moros, como Iudios de la ciudad de Argel, y del mal tratamiento y rigor que usan con los cautivos, y como les permiten que oigan Missa, y Sermon, y otras muchas cosas diversas de admiración. Escrita por un cautivo que ahora ha venido de allá (natural desta Villa, y Corte de Madrid) en la Redención que hizo el Convento de la Santísima Trinidad en 25. de Marzo [de] este año de 1639
Madrid: Diego Díaz, 1639.
Solomons sacrifice. With his prayer in Gibeon, and how God appeared to him in a vision and granted his request. To a pleasant new tune
London: Henry Gosson , [1635].
Voyage en Inde 1754–1762
in: “Voyage en Inde 1754–1762”
Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient, Maisonneuve et Larose, 1997 [1754–1762].
Loores del dignissimo Lugar de Calvario: en que se relata todo lo que nuestro redemptor Jesus hizo y dixo en el, conforme al texto del sacro evangelio, perteneciente a su passion, muerte, sepultura y resurrection
Alcalá de Henares: Salzedo, 1551.
Disputatio philologico-theologica, de sacrificio jugi prima: sive codex Talmudicus Tamid ex hebraeo sermone in latinum versus et commentariis illustratus. Quam volente Deo T.O.M. sub praesidio d. Johannis Vander Waeyen S. S. Theologiae doctoris, eiusque Facultatis ac Literaturae Hebraicae Professoris Clarissimi, Academici Concionatoris Facundissimi, Celsissimo Nassaviae Principi a Sanctioribus Consiliis defendet Michael Arnoldi Franeq. Frisius A. & R.
Franeker: Johann Gyselaer, 1680.
Libelli duo in misoliturgos, hoc est, missae osores quorum prior de Iudaeorum paganorumque sacrificiis generatim, posterior vero de unico Christianorum sacrificio late tractat
Gand: Cornelius Manilius, 1556.
Dell’historia della Compagnia di Giesu, il Giappone, seconda parte dell’Asia, descritta dal P. Daniello Bartoli della medesima Compagnia
Rome: Ignazio de' Lazzeri, 1660.
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Dell’historia della Compagnia di Giesu. L’Asia descritta dal P. Daniello Bartoli della medesima Compagnia. Parte prima
Rome: Ignazio de' Lazzeri, 1653.
Dell’istoria della Compagnia di Giesu l’Asia descritta dal p. Daniello Bartoli della medesima Compagnia. Parte prima. Editione terza accresciuta della missione al Mogor e della vita e morte del p. Ridolfo Aquaviva. Composta dal medesimo autore
Roma : stamperia del Varese, 1667.
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L'Histoire et la Religion des Juifs, depuis Jesus-Christ jusqu'à présent. Pour servir de Supplément et de Continuation à l’Histoire de Joseph
Rotterdam: Reinier Leers, 1707.
The royall priesthood of Christians: an excellent treatise, wherein the nature of the priesthood, the function of the priests, and qualitie of the sacrifice is lively portrayed, for the sure building up of the faithfull professors of the gospell, in holinesse and sanctitie of life
London: T. Este for Thomas Man, 1605.