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
La genese du martyrologe d'Adrien van Haemstede (1559)
in: Revue d'histoire ecclesiastique, v. 63 (1968), issue : pp.179-214.
Un instrument de propagande religieuse: les martyrologes du XVIe siecle
in: Sources de l'histoire religieuse de la Belgique: Moyen âge et Temps moderne, pp. 379-388
Louvain: Publications universitaires de Louvain, 1968.
Une édition inconnue du martyrologe de Jean Ctrspin
in: Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance , v. 30 (1968), issue : pp.363-371.
Books of Martyrs
in: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, pp. 195-200
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
The Victim's Voice and MelodramaticAesthetics in History
in: History and Theory, v. 48 (2009), issue : pp.220-237.
Johannes Kessler Sabbata: Chronik der Jahre 1523-1539
St. Gallen: verlag von Scheitlin & Zollikofer, 1866.
Prescribing and Describing Martyrdom: Menno's Troestelijke Vermanninge and Het Offer des Herren
in: Mennonite QuarterlyReview, v. 71 (1887), issue 4: pp.603-613.
Anabaptist Martyrdom: Imperatives, Experience, and Memorialization
in: Anabaptism and Spiritualism, 1524-1700, pp. 467-506
Leiden: Brill, 2007.
The Forgotten Writings of the Mennonite Martyrs
Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2002.
A cry from the dead, or, the ghost of the famous Mr. James Guthrie appearing: Being the last sermon he preached in the pulpit of Stirling, before his martyrdom at Edinburgh, June 1661. To which is added, his last speech upon the Scaffold.
Glasgow: William Duncan, 1738.
Les martyrologes et la critique: contribution a l'études du Martyrologes protestant des Pays-Bas
in: Mélanges Historiques offerts à Monsieur Jean Meyhoffer , pp. 52-70
Lausanne: Faculté du theologié de l'église évangélique libre du canton de Vaud, 1952.
Foxe's Book of Martyrs and the Elect Nation
London: J. Cape, 1963.
The Angel of Syon. The Life and Martyrdom of Blessed Richard Reynolds
London: Saands & Co., 1905.
Bloody Mary's Victims: The Iconography of John Foxe's Book of Martyrs
in: Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, v. 51 (1982), issue 1: pp.7-21.