Topic: 3. Sacrifice and politics (16th-18th Century)
During the transformative period of the 16th to 18th centuries, the notion of the State evolved into a nearly mystical entity, perceived as immortal and worthy of the ultimate sacrifice. This section delves into the complex interplay between sovereignty, resistance, and sacrifice, a theme explored by early proponents of political tolerance. It also examines revolutionary acts and regicide, viewed through the lens of sacrificial rites. This section includes early modern printed and iconographic sources, along with a comprehensive bibliography from the 19th to 21st centuries, providing a historical and modern perspective on this complex theme
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.
Defensio fidei catholicae de satisfactione Christi adversus Faustum Socinum Senensem: scripta ab Hugone Grotio
Leiden: Ioannes Patius, 1617.
Fruitful Death: Mircea Eliade and Ernst Jünger on Human Sacrifice, 1937–1945
in: Numen. International Review for the History of Religions, v. 52 (2005), issue 1: pp.116-145.
Fundamentalism and Terror. A Dialogue with Jürgen Habermas
in: Philosophy in a Time of Terror. Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, pp. 25-43
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003.
On Sacrifice
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.
Sacrificing the Sacrifices of War
in: Religion and Politics of Peace and Conflict, pp. 83-103
Princeton: Priceton Theological Monograph, 2009.
Basilika. The Works of Charles I (1662)
from: Basilika. The Works of King charles the Martyr: With a Collection of Declarations, Treaties, and Other Papers Concerning the Differences betwixt His Said Majesty and His Two Houses of Parliament, London, James Flesher, 1662, Frontispice
British Museum, London
A briefe relation of the death and sufferings of the Most Reverend and renowned prelate, the L. Archbishop of Canterbury with a more perfect copy of his speech, and other passages on the scaffold, than hath beene hitherto imprinted.
Oxford: n. p. , 1644.
3. Sacrifice and politics (16th-18th Century) 6. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology after Reformation (16th-18th Century)
The Power of Sacrifice: Roman and Christian Discourses in Conflict
Washington, DC : The Catholic University of America Press, 2007.
Leviathan
Oxford : Oxford University Press, Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes, 2012-2014.
Execution of Egmond and Horne [1568]
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The ritualistic murder of a Christian child by a group of Jewish men; the child standing at centre, surrounded by five figures who are restraining, cutting him and gathering his blood; in an ornament frame with Gothic Laubwerk along upper edge; illustration to Ubertino Pusculino, 'Duo libri Symonidos de Judaeorum perfidia', Augsburg: Johan Ottmar, 1511. (1511)
from: Ubertino Pusculino, 'Duo libri Symonidos de Judaeorum perfidia', Augsburg: Johan Ottmar, 1511
Bristih Museum
Dr. Hollingworth's Defence of K. Charles the First's Holy and Divine Book, Called Eikon Basilikē; Against the Rude and Undutiful Assaults of the Late Dr. Walker of Essex. Proving by Living and Unquestionable Evidences, the Aforesaid Book to Be That Royal Martyr's, and Not Dr. Gauden's
London: Samuel Eddowes, 1692.
The Death of King Charles I Proved a Down-Right Murder, With the Aggravations of It. In a Sermon at St. Botolph Aldgate, London, January 30, 1692/3. To Which Are Added, Some Just Reflections Upon Some Late Papers, Concerning That King's Book
London: R. Norton; Walter Kettilby, 1693.
Vindiciae Carolinae, or, A Defence of Eikon basilikē, the Portraicture of His Sacred Majesty in His Solitudes and Sufferings in Reply to a Book Intituled Eikonoklastes, Written by Mr. Milton, and Lately Re-Printed at Amsterdam
London: J.L.; Luke Meredith, 1692.
Tyrannicide, the Oath of Allegiance Controversy, and the Assassination of Henry IV
in: Jesuit Political Thought: The Society of Jesus and the State, c. 1540-1630
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Tyrannie and tyrannicide selon Pierre Jurieu
in: Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français, v. 152 (2006), issue 4: pp.583-609.