Topic: 4. Sacrifice and Eucharist (16th-18th Century)
The redemptive role of Christ’s sacrifice was at the centre of early modern doctrinal controversies. During this time, the debate revolved around the sacramental role of the sacrifice in the eucharist and the Mass. This section contains numerous early modern printed sources and images, as well as the related bibliography on the theme (19th-21st Century).
The sacrifice of thankefulnesse A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the third of December, being the first Adventuall Sunday, anno 1615
London: Thomas Purfoot, for Clement Knight, 1616.
Un Epistolario de Bernardo José Aldrete (1612-1623)
Seville: Junta de Andalucía (Consejería de Cultura), 2009.
The Altar of Incense (1534)
from: De Biblie uth der uthlegginge Doctoris Martini Luthers in dyth düdesche ulitich uthgestellet, mit sundergen underichtingen alse men seen mach,Ludowich Dietz 1534
Loores del dignissimo Lugar de Calvario (1551)
from: Antonio de Aranda. Loores del dignissimo Lugar de Calvario: en que se relata todo lo que nuestro redemptor Jesus hizo y dixo en el, conforme al texto del sacro evangelio, perteneciente a su passion, muerte, sepultura y resurrection, Alcalá de Henares, Salzedo, 1551
The Description of the Horrible Burning of Iohn Badby, and How he Was Used at his death. (1563)
from: Foxe, J. Book of Martyrs, 1684
Atla Digital Library
The Lambe speaketh. Anti-catholic satire with a wolf-headed Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, biting the neck of a sacrificial lamb suspended by its hind legs above an altar; to right, the bishops of London and Durham, the dean of Westminster and other Roman Catholic clerics (all with wolves' heads) drink the blood that spurts from the lamb; at Gardiner's feet lie six further lambs bearing the names of Cranmer, Ridley and other Protestant reformers; at upper left, three men pull at a rope tied around Gardiner's neck (members of the House of Lords who threw out Gardiner's heresy bill on 1 May 1554) while at lower left a group of gullible men (the Commons who had passed the bill a month earlier) are attached from rings in their noses to a rope around Gardiner's waist; the Pope as the devil appears top right (1555)
British Museum, London
The Triumph of the Eucharist, Christ as the Man of Sorrows supported by two angels standing in a chalice (1550–1600)
from: Italy
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Vida del siervo de Dios exemplar de sacerdotes el venerable Padre Fernando de Contreras, natural de esta ciudad de Sevilla, del abito clerical de N.P.S. Pedro. Escrita de orden del Dean y Cabildo de esta Santa, Metropolitana, y Patriarchal Iglesia [...] por el padre Gabriel de Aranda de la Compañía de Jesus. Impressa à expensas y solicitud de un capitular de la misma Santa Iglesia. Con Licencia.
Seville: Thomas Lopez de Haro, 1692.
Disputatio de aquae transmutatione in sacrificio missa
Antwerp : Martinus Nutius, 1628.
Two Paradigms on the Eucharist as Sacrifice: Scheeben and Journet in Dialogue
in: Nova et Vetera, v. 16 (), issue 2: pp.401–437.
Eucharist and sacrifice
Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, 1958.