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.
Numancia (1880 - 1881)
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (Spain)
I «martiri» della Guerra civile spagnola nella storiografia e nell’agiografia
in: Clero e guerre spagnole in età contemporanea (1808-1939), pp. 333 - 366
Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino Ed., 2011.
Saint Pedro Pascual, Mercedarian, martyr in Granada (1300) (1676)
from: Pedro Pascual (Santo), Sancti Petri Paschasii Martyris, Giennensis Episcopi, Ordinis B. Mariae de Mercede Redemptionis Captivorum Opera [...], Madrid, 1676
“The Search for Evidence. The Relics of Martyred Saints and Their Worship in Cordoba after the Council of Trent.”
in: After Conversion. Iberia and the Emergence of Modernity. , pp. 126 - 152
Leiden: Brill, 2016.
The Significance of the Voluntary Martyrs of Ninth-century Córdoba.
in: The Muslim World, v. 60 (1970), issue 2: pp.143 - 159.
Lutter contre les Turcs: les formes nouvelles de la croisade pontificale au XVe siècle
Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 2013.
Christian Martyrs in Muslim Spain
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Persecution, Past and Present. Memorialising Martyrdom in Late Antique and Early Medieval Córdoba
in: Al-Masaq, v. 27 (2015), issue : pp.41 - 60.
Catalogo de los obispos de las iglesias catedrales de la diocesis de Jaen y Annales Eclesiasticos de ste obispado [...] por Don Martin de Ximena [...]
Madrid : Garcia y Morras, Domingo, 1654.
The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam. From Jihad to Dhimmitude (Seventh-Twentieth Century)
Madison - Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996.
Martyrdom of Saint Serapion of Algiers (Mercedarian, 1179 - 1240) (1628)
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Saint Raymond Nonnatus (17th Century)
Private Collection. Madrid (Spain)
Martyrdom of Saint Roderick (17th Century)
Church of San Juan de Dios, Cabra (Spain)
Topographie et Histoire générale d’Alger. Par Haedo, traduite de l’espagnol [...]. Partie II
in: Revue Africaine, v. XV (1871), issue : pp.41 - 458.
Topographia e Historia general de Argel. Repartida en cinco tratados, do[nde] se veran casos estraños [sic], muertes espantosas y tormentos exquisitos [...] dirigida al ilustrissimo señor don Diego de Haedo, arzobispo de Palermo [...] por el maestro fray Diego de Haedo, Abad de Fromesta, de la orden del Patriarca san Benito
Valladolid: Diego Fernandez de Cordoba y Oviedo, 1612.