Topic: 6. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology after Reformation (16th-18th Century)
During the volatile period between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, the concept of martyrdom underwent significant reinterpretations across different Christian denominations. This section explores how Catholics, Protestants, and Anabaptists each uniquely perceived and portrayed martyrdom. Protestants, countering the Catholic notion of sainthood, crafted new martyrologies to establish a lineage of sacrifice rooted in what they deemed as true faith. Similarly, the Anabaptists viewed the state of persecution, as chronicled in their martyrologies, as a testament to being part of the true church. This collection includes a wide array of early modern Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist printed sources and images. It is further enriched by a comprehensive bibliography spanning from the 19th to the 21st Century, offering modern perspectives on these historical interpretations
Sui martirologi protestanti del XVI secolo: appunti ed interrogativi per una ricerca
in: Europa Sacra, v. (2002), issue : pp.321-351.
Basiliká. The Works of King Charles the Martyr: With a Collection of Declarations, Treatises, and Other Papers Concerning the Differences Betwixt His Said Majesty and His Two Houses of Parliament
London: James Flesher; Richard Royston, 1662.
Reliquiae sacrae Carolinae. Or the Works of That Great Monarch and Glorious Martyr King Charles the I. Collected Together, and Digested in Order According to Their Several Subjects, Civil and Sacred
Hague [London]: Samuel Brown [William Dugard; Francis Eglesfield], 1650.
Persecutio undecima, or, The churches eleventh persecution being a brief of the fanatick persecution of the Protestant clergy of the Church of England, more particularly within the city of London: begun in Parliament, Anno Dom. 1641, and printed in the year 1648.
London: n. p., 1648.
Anabaptisticum et enthusiasticum Pantheon und geistliches Rüst-Hauss wider die alten Quacker, und neuen Frey-Geister, welche die Kirche Gottes zeithero verunruhiget, und bestürmet, auch treue Lehrer und Prediger Göttlichen Worts, verachtet, verleumbdet, gelästert und verfolget haben: mit vielen zur Sache dienlichen und nützlichen Kupffern, bloss zu Gottes Ehre und Erhaltung seiner Christlichen Kirchen, auch den Geistlichen, Weltlichen und Hausstande zur Nachricht, Nutz und besten zusammen getragen und auffgerichtet
n. p. : n. p., 1702.
Jan Luyken, the Martyrs Mirror, and the Iconography of Suffering
in: Mennonite Quarterly Review, v. 85 (2011), issue : pp.441-476.
Paratextual Strategies in Thieleman van Braght's Martyrs' Mirror
in: Book History, v. 9 (2006), issue : pp.1-29.
“Spared not from tribulation”: Children in Early Modern Martyrologies
in: Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte , v. 97 (2006), issue 1: pp.165-183.
England's Eusebius: John Foxe and the Acts and Monuments
in: The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Christian Martyrdom , pp. 305-321
Chichester: John Wiley, 2020.
De geloofwaardigheid van van Braght
in: Doopsgezinde Bijdragen, v. 39 (1899), issue : pp.65-164.