Topic: 3. Sacrifice and politics (16th-18th century)

Topic: 3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

During the transformative period of the 16^th to 18^th 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 19^th to 21^st centuries, providing a historical and modern perspective on this complex theme

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Fokke, Simon

Olimpia (18^th Century)

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Topics:
3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Ancient GreeksFirePolitical SacrificeSelf-SacrificeWomen

Frezza, Giovanni Girolamo

Ifigenia libens collum submitte securi; Non aliter, quando Troia perire potest (1713)

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice FirstbornsIphigeniaSacrifice for the NationWomen

Gaultier, Léonard

Menelaus and Ulysses (17^th Century)

Musée de la Faïence, Nevers

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Ancient GreeksFirePagan SacrificePolitical Sacrifice

Gerard of Wales

An Irish ritual of kingship: the sacrifice of a white mare and preparation of a stew, in which the king bathes and which his supporters ea (ca 1196-1223)

British Library, London [ms Royal 13 B. VIII, fol. 28v]

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice IrelandKingshipManuscript

Gillray, James

Smelling Out a Rat; or, The Atheistical Revolutionist Disturbed in His Midnight Calculations (1790)

British Museum, London

Topics:
3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AtheismPolitical SacrificePropagandaRegicide

Gionima, Antonio

The Sacrifice of Jephtah’s Daughter (18^th Century)

Royal Collection Trust, London

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century) 3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Bible, JudgesIsraelJephthahPolitical SacrificeWomen

Graf, Urs

The martyrdom of Simon of Trent; a small child tied to a pole with two men cutting his skin while another holds a bowl underneath the boy's feet to collect the blood; illustration to Jacobus de Voragine, 'Passionael efte dat levent der hyllighten', Basel: Adam Petri, 1517. (1517)

from: Jacobus de Voragine, Passionael efte dat levent der hyllighten', Basel, Adam Petri, 1517

British Museum

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AntisemitismBlood LibelChild SacrificeHuman SacrificesSimon of Trent

Gravlot, Hubert François

The Fatal Sacrifice (18^th Century)

Wellcome Collection, London

Topics:
3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Ancient GreeksFirePolitical SacrificeSelf-SacrificeWomen

Hertochs, Abraham

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

Topics:
3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century) 6. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology after Reformation (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: FrontispiecePropagandaRegicideRoyalistsSecular Martyrs

Hogenberg, Frans

Execution of Egmond and Horne [1568]

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Topics:
3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Anti-Catholic ControversyNetherlandsPropagandaSacrifice for the Nation

Holbein the Elder, Hans

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

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AntisemitismBlood LibelChild SacrificeHuman SacrificesJewish Studies

Huybrechts, Peeter

Projicis inventum caput Angla ecclesia: caesum si caput est, salvum corpus an esse potest? (?^th Century)

British Museum, London

Topics:
3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century) 6. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology after Reformation (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Church-State RelationsEnglish Civil WarEngravingsRegicideRoyalists

Jode, Pieter de, de jonge

Portrait of Oliver Cromwell (?^th Century)

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Topics:
3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century) 6. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology after Reformation (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: NetherlandsPolitical SacrificePropagandaRegicide

Kollwitz, Käthe

The Sacrifice (Das Opfer) (1922)

New York, MoMA

Topics:
3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: War

Koning, Theodoor

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

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century) 3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Bible, 1 KingsIdolatryJeroboamPagan SacrificePolitical Sacrifice