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

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Penny, A.

Family Matters and Foxe's Acts and Monuments

in: Historical Journal , v. 39 (1996), issue : pp.599 - 618.

Pettegree, A.; Gordon, B. (Ed.)

Andrian von Haemstede: The Heretic as Historian

in: Protestant History and Identity in Sixteenth-Century Europe. The Later Reformation , pp. 59-76

Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996.

Piaget, A.; Berthoud, G.

Notes sur Le Livres des Martyrs de Jean Crespin

Neuchâtel: Secretariat de l'Université, 1930.

Picart, Bernard

Charles I. Roi d'Angleterre décapité à Whitehall le 30e Janvier 1649 (1730)

from: Larrey, Isaac de. Geschiedenis van Engelandt, Schotlandt en Ierlandt; met een kort begrip der aanmerkelykste zaken, in andere ryken en staten voorgevallen. In het Fransch beschreven door den Heere De Larrey, Hof-en bezendings-raadt van zyne koninklyke majesteit van Pruissen. In het Nederduitsch uitgegeven, en uit de openbare gedenkschriften van Engelandt en de allernaauwkerigste oude en nieuwe schryvers merkelyk vermeerdert en verandert door Jan Lodewyk Schuer. Met heerlyke afbeeldselen en landkaarten versiert. Vieerde deel, Amsterdam, Joh. Covens en Corn. Mortier, 1730, vol. 4, p. 1

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Pietersen, L. K. ; Middleton, P. (Ed.)

Anabaptist Martyrdom

in: The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Christian Martyrdom , pp. 287-304

Chichester: John Wiley, 2020.

Plennert, W.

The Martyrs' Mirror and Anabaptist Women

in: Mennonite Life, v. 30 (1975), issue : pp.13-18.

Polkowski, M. ; Bela, T.; Calma, C.; Rzegocka J. (Ed.)

Richard Verstegan as a Publicist of the Counter-Reformation: Religion, Identity and Clandestine Literature

in: Publishing Subversive Texts in Elizabethan England and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, pp. 263 – 287

Leiden: Brill, 2016.


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