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
Reformations of the Body Idolatry, Sacrifice, and Early Modern Theater
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
A True Account of the Author of a Book Entituled Eikōn Basilikē, or, The Pourtraiture of His Sacred Majesty in His Solitudes and Sufferings: Proved to Be Written by Dr. Gauden, Late Bishop of Worcester. With an Answer to All Objections Made by Dr. Hollingsworth and Others. Published by Anthony Walker, Late Rector of Fyfield in Essex. With an Attestation Under the Hand of the Late Earl of Anglesey to the Same Purpose
London: Nathanael Ranew, 1692.
To the King, Upon His Majesty Happy Return
London: Henry Herringman, 1660?.
Sovereign LadiesSex, Sacrifice, and Power--The Six Reigning Queens of England
New York: St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2013.
Exodus and Revolution
New York: Basic Books, 1985.
Paper Bullets: Print and Kingship Under Charles II
Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
King Charles the Martyr, 1643 - 1649
London: Hollis & Carter, 1950.
Political and Demographic-Ecological Determinants of Institutionalised Human Sacrifice
in: Anthropological Forum, v. 24 (2014), issue 1: pp.47-70.
Human sacrifice as social control through terror
in: Human Sacrifice and Value. Revisiting the Limits of Sacred Violence from an Anthropological and Archaeological Perspective, pp. Chap. 16
London: Routledge, 2023.
Great War, Religious Dimensions
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Martyrium des Simon von Trent, Darstellung aus der Nürnberger Weltchronik von Hartmann Schedel - Purported Martyrdom of Simon of Trent, depiction from the Nuremberg World Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel. (1493)
from: Hartmann Schedel, Nürnberger Weltchronik
Fidelity and Sacrifice: The Gender Discourse of Traders in Pre- and Post-Opium War Canton
in: Frontiers of History in China, pp. 473-507
Leiden: Brill, 2020.
Sovereignty and the Sacred: Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion
Chicago - London: University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Sovereignty and the Sacred: Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion
Chicago - London: University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Several Evidences Which Have Not Yet Appeared in the Controversy Concerning the Author of Eikōn Basilikē: Produced in a Letter to the Reverend Mr. Wagstaffe
London: T.W.; Richard Wilkin, 1703.
Deng Zihui and the Issue of Rural Social Classes in the Chinese Revolution
in: Rural China, pp. 40-64
Leiden: Brill, 2015.
in: Two Nations in Your Womb: Perceptions of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, pp.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
They Tell Lies: You ate the Man’: Jewish Reactions to Ritual Murder Accusations
in: Religious Violence Between Christians and Jews, pp. 86-100
Hampshire: Palgrave, 2002.