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.
To Die for God: Martyrs’ Heaven in Hebrew and Latin Crusade Narratives
in: Speculum, v. 77 (2002), issue 2: pp.311–341.
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16th-18th Century) 5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12th-20th Century)
Martyrdom and Crusading in the Thirteenth Century. Remembering the Dead of Louis IX's Crusades.
in: Al-Masaq, v. 15 (2003), issue : pp.189 - 196.
San Pedro Pascual (17th Century)
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (Spain)
San Pedro Pascual (detalle) (17th Century)
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (Spain)
Saint Pelayo being tortured by order of Abderramán III in Cordoba [17th Century]
Main Altarpiece of the parish Church of Saint Pelayo Martyr, Olivares de Duero (Valladolid, Spain).
Los sacrificios del cuerpo. Configuración, formas y evolución de la(s) memoria(s) de Blas de Lezo en la España de los siglos XVIII y XIX.
in: Historia y Memoria, v. 20 (2020), issue : pp.169-207.
Sacrae Theologiae Theses, in comitiis Provincialibus Aragoniae, Regii, ac Militaris Ordinis Beatae Mariae de Mercede, Redemptionis Captivorum, controvertendae: in Templo Divo Lazaro Sacro, Regii Coenobii Caesaraugustani. Eiusdem Ordinis, Diebus 11, 12 & 13. Maii, anno 1755
Barcelona: Franciscus Surià, ? [1755].
San Epitacio Apóstol y Pastor de Tui, ciudadano obispo y martir de Ambracia oy Plasencia, su vida y martirio. Escrivelo a la devocion y mandato del Illmo. y Rmo. Señor Don Diego de Arce Reynoso obispo de Plasencia [...] el Licen.do Iuan de Tamayo Salazar su secretario [...]
Madrid: Diego Diez de la Carrera, 1646.
Crusade Preaching and the Ideal Crusader
Turnhout : Brepols, 2018.
De Imitatione Christi et de contemptu mundi
Venice: Johannes Leoviller ; Franciscus de Madiis, 1486.
Breviculum seu Electorium parvum Thomae Migerii (Le Myésier). Breviculum ex artibus Raimundi electum ad praeceptum reginae Franciae et Navarrae sublimatum.
in: Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis
Turnhout: Brepols, 1990.
From Invitation to Provocation. 'Holy Cruelty' as Christian Mission in Ninth-century Córdoba.
in: Al-Masaq, v. 24 (2012), issue : pp.21 - 33.
Réliques et païens. La naturalisation des martyrs de Cordoue à Saint-Germain (IXe siècle)
in: Civilisation médiévale. Aquitaine-Espagne (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle), pp. 39 - 55
Poitiers: Centre d'études supérieures de civilisation médiévale, 2001.
in: The Practices of Crusading: Image and Action from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries, pp.
Farnham: Ashgate, 2013.
Fighting for Christendom: Holy War and the Crusades
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
God's War: A New History of the Crusades
London: Penguin Books, 2007.