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
Sacred Violence in Early America
Philadelphia,: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008.
Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008.
Pro Patria Mori
in: Medieval Political Thought in Selected Studies, pp. 308-324
New York: Augustin, 1965.
Das antijüdische Ritualmordrelief von 1727 an der Wernerkapelle von Oberwesel und seine widerwillige Entfernung
in: Aschkenas, v. 30 (2020), issue 1: pp.37-60.
Secularity as Sacrifice.Notes on the Dialectical Logic in Modernity and its Monotheistic Prefigurations
in: Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society, v. (2015), issue 1/1: pp.22–45.
Divine Providence in the England of Shakespeare's Histories
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980.
The Theatre of Death: Rituals of Justice from the English Civil Wars to the Restoration
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2016.
Constructing Cromwell: Ceremony, Portrait, and Print 1645-1661
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
The Appellation of Iohn Knoxe from the Cruell and Most Iniust Sentence Pronounced Against Him by the False Bishoppes and Clergie of Scotland, With His Supplication and Exhortation to the Nobilitie, Estates, ad Comunaltie of the Same Realme
Gèneve: s.n., 1558.
The Ambiguity of Sovereignty: the Passion Narrative as a Paradox
in: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Torture, pp. 59-66
Leiden: Brill, 2019.
The Sacrifice of Africa: A Political Theology for Africa
Grand Rapids : Eerdmans, 2011.
Idolatry of Jeroboam (1780)
from: Flavius Josephus. Alle de werken van Flavius Josephus, naar het Grieksch in 't Engelsch gebragt en verkort, waar by gevoegd is: de twee boeken van Josephus tegens Appion; zyn Richtsnor der Reden, of het martelaarschap der Macchabeen, en 't gezantschap van Philo den Jood aan den keizer Cajus Caligula. Uit het Engelsch in het Nederduitsch vertaald. Eerste deel, Amserdam, J. van Gulik, 1780, p. 300
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Latin Poetry about Simon of Trento
in: Acta Conventus Neo- Latini Budapestensis, pp. 397–406
Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 2010.
The Alleged Ritual Murder of Simon of Trent (1475) and its Literary Repercussions: A Bibliographical Study
in: Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, v. 59 (1993), issue : pp.103-135.
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia [1710-1720]
Musée de l'Histoire de France, Versailles
The Cult of King Charles the Martyr
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2003.
The culture of sacrifice in conscript and volunteer militaries: The U.S. Medal of Honor from the Civil War to Iraq, 1861–2014
in: American Journal of Cultural Sociology , v. 4 (2016), issue : pp.323-358.