Topic: 5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12th-20th Century)
Spanning from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, this section delves into the complex world of religiously motivated wars, where martyrdom and self-sacrifice dedicated to God played a pivotal role. It offers an extensive collection of printed sources and images that trace the evolution of this phenomenon through the crusades, the Reconquista, and various holy wars. This assortment includes materials from the twelfth to the twentieth century and provides a comprehensive bibliography that examines these events from both sacred and secular viewpoints.
Christianity and Islam in Spain (A.D. 756 - 1031)
London: Kegan Paul, Trench &Co., Paternoster Square, 1889.
El nuevo Machabeo del Evangelio y cavallero de Christo, S. Serapio Martyr, del Real y militar Orden de N. Señora de la Merced, escrito por el padre presentado Fr. Antonio Ambrosio de Hardá Muxica.
Madrid: En la imprenta del convento de la Merced, 1727.
Peter the Hermit preaches the First Crusade (1827 - 1829)
France National Library (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Richelieu), Paris
Sainteté martyriale et communauté de salut. Une lecture du dossier des martyrs de Cordoue (milieu IXe siècle).
in: Guerriers et moines. Conversion et sainteté aristocratiques dans l'Occident médiéval, pp. 93 - 139
Nice (France): CNRS, 2002.
Beheading of the five martyrs of Morocco (1508)
Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon (Proceeding from San Francisco Church in Évora, Portugal)
Anales de Granada. Descripción del reino y ciudad de Granada. Crónica de la Reconquista (1482-1492). Sucesos de los años 1588 a 1646, editada según un manuscrito por Alonso Marín
Granada: University of Granada - Municipality of Granada, 1987.
Saint Roderick, Martyr in Cordova (died on March 13, 857 AD) (19th Century)
Sacresty of the Church Asunción y Ángeles, Cabra (Spain)
S[a]n Rodrigo, Patrono de Cabra (19th Century)
Sacresty of the San Francisco y San Rodrigo Church, Cabra (Spain). Oil on Zinco plate.
Moros y Cristianos. Historia popular de la reconquista de España
Santander: Administración de Sal de Terre, 1926.
Discovery of the leaden books of Sacromonte (Granada) [1741]
from: Heredia Barnuevo, Diego N. Mystico ramillete historico, chronologyco, panegyrico, texido de las tres fragrantes flores del nobilissimo antiguo origen, exemplarissima vida, y meritissima fama posthuma del Ambrosio de Granada ... el Illmo. y V.Sr. Don Pedro de Castro, Vaca y Quiñones ... Arzobispo de Granada, y Sevilla, y Fundador Magnifico de la Insigne Iglesia Colegial del Sacro Monte Illipulitano, Granada, Imprenta Real, 1741.
Discovery of the leaden books of Sacromonte (Granada) [1741]
from: Heredia Barnuevo, Diego N. Mystico ramillete historico, chronologyco, panegyrico, texido de las tres fragrantes flores del nobilissimo antiguo origen, exemplarissima vida, y meritissima fama posthuma del Ambrosio de Granada ... el Illmo. y V.Sr. Don Pedro de Castro, Vaca y Quiñones ... Arzobispo de Granada, y Sevilla, y Fundador Magnifico de la Insigne Iglesia Colegial del Sacro Monte Illipulitano, Granada, Imprenta Real, 1741.
Ecce Servus meus, Suscipiam eum, electus meus, complacuit sibi in illo anima mea, dedi Spiritum meum super eum, iudicium gentibus proferet... Isa. 42. Deduxit eos in Spe, et Inimicos eorum operuit mare Et induxit eos in Montem Sanctisficationis Sive Montem quem acquisivit dextera eius. Ps. 77. [1620]
from: Antolínez de Burgos, J. Historia eclesiástica de Granada [manuscript, composed around 1620 and conserved in the Library and Historical Archives of the Abadía de Sacromonte, Granada].
Martyrdom of Juan Martínez Jáuregui, clergyman of Mairena (1610)
from: Antolínez, J. Historia Eclesiástica de Granada, 1610.
Mille Clypei pendent exea Plantaverunt Ecclesiam Sanguine suo. Expoliti Lapidis suis Coaptantur Locis Per Manus Artificis Disponuntur Permansuri Sacris Aedificiis. Fundamenta eius in Montibus S[anc]tis. [1741]
from: Heredia Barnuevo, Diego N. Mystico ramillete historico, chronologyco, panegyrico, texido de las tres fragrantes flores del nobilissimo antiguo origen, exemplarissima vida, y meritissima fama posthuma del Ambrosio de Granada ... el Illmo. y V.Sr. Don Pedro de Castro, Vaca y Quiñones ... Arzobispo de Granada, y Sevilla, y Fundador Magnifico de la Insigne Iglesia Colegial del Sacro Monte Illipulitano, Granada, Imprenta Real, 1741.
Ugíjar Martyrs (1610)
from: Antolínez, J. Historia Eclesiástica de Granada, 1610.
Frontispiece of the book Historia Eclesiástica de Granada, 1638. (1638)
from: Bermúdez de Pedraza, F. Historia Eclesiástica de Granada, Granada, 1638.
Saint Roderick, Martyr in Cordova (857) (1789)
Parish of the Assumption (Parroquia de la Asunción). Arroyo de la Luz, Cáceres (Spain).
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives
New York: Routledge, 1999.
Mártires de la Alpujarra en la rebelión de los moriscos (1568)
Madrid: Apostolado de la Prensa, 1935.