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
Charles I. Roi d'Angleterre décapité à Whitehall le 30e Janvier 1649 (1730)
from: Larrey, Isaac de. Geschiedenis van Engelandt, Schotlandt en Ierlandt; met een kort begrip der aanmerkelykste zaken, in andere ryken en staten voorgevallen. In het Fransch beschreven door den Heere De Larrey, Hof-en bezendings-raadt van zyne koninklyke majesteit van Pruissen. In het Nederduitsch uitgegeven, en uit de openbare gedenkschriften van Engelandt en de allernaauwkerigste oude en nieuwe schryvers merkelyk vermeerdert en verandert door Jan Lodewyk Schuer. Met heerlyke afbeeldselen en landkaarten versiert. Vieerde deel, Amsterdam, Joh. Covens en Corn. Mortier, 1730, vol. 4, p. 1
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Cromwel. Viceregent (?th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The Royal Martyr in the Restoration
in: The Royal Image: Representations of Charles I, pp. 240-262
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Canterburies doome, or, The first part of a compleat history of the commitment, charge, tryall, condemnation, execution of William Laud, late Arch-bishop of Canterbury containing the severall orders, articles, proceedings in Parliament against him, from his first accusation therein, till his tryall: together with the various evidences and proofs produced against him at the Lords Bar: wherein this Arch-prelates manifold trayterous artifices to usher in popery by degrees, are cleerly detected, and the ecclesiasticall history of our church-affaires, during his pontificall domination, faithfully presented to the publike view of the world by William Prynne, of Lincolns Inne, Esquire
London: John Macock, 1646.
3. Sacrifice and politics (16th-18th Century) 6. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology after Reformation (16th-18th Century)
Rituals of death: capital punishment and human sacrifice
in: Facing the death penalty, pp. 139–155
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16th-18th Century) 3. Sacrifice and politics (16th-18th Century)
Uno stereotipo antigiudaico per immagini
in: Il Simonino. Geografia di un culto.Con saggi di Diego Quaglioni e Laura Dal Prà , pp. 9-16
Trento: Società di Studi Trentini di Scienze Storiche, 2012.
The Subject of Satı: Pain and Death in the Contemporary Discourse on Satı’
in Yale Journal of Criticism, Vol. 3, no. 2 (1990), pp. 1–23.: , 1990.
The Fragmentation of Sati: Constructing Hindu identity through nationalistic pilgrimage souvenirs
in: Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, v. 27 (2015), issue --: pp.12-35.
Animal Sacrifice and Political Identity in Rome and Judaea
in: Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries: How to Write Their History, pp. 105-125
Leiden: Brill, 2014.
Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Luois Prieur: Revolutionary Artists. The Public, the Populace and Images of the French Revolution
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999.
Jacques-Louis David, Revolutionary Artist
Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold
London: Chatto & Windus, 2005.
A Sacrificial Scene (17th Century)
Royal Collection Trust, London
The Death of Atilius Regulus (1662)
Galleria Trincia, Rome