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
Fools, Martyrs, Traitors: The Story of Martyrdom in the Western World
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
Dutch Anabaptists and the Telling ofMartyr Stories
in: Mennonite Quarterly Review, v. 80 (2006), issue : pp.149-183.
A History of the Martyrs' Mirror
in: Mennonite Quarterly Review, v. 22 (1948), issue : pp.163-179.
A 'Protestant' approach to colonization as envisaged in John Lockman's Protestant martyrology (1760)
in: Violence and Emotions in Europe, 1400-1800, pp. 185-201
London - New York: Routledge, 2015.
“I am contented to die”: The Letters from Prison of the Waldensian Sebastian Bazan (d. 1623) and the Anti-Jacobite Narratives of the Reformed Martyrs of Piedmont
in: Feeling Exclusion: Religious Conflict, Exile and Emotions in Early Modern Europe, pp. 126-145
Abingdon - Oxon - New York: Routledge, 2019.
Francisco de san Román: un mártir protestante de Burgalés (1542)
in: Cuadernos de Investigación Histórica, v. 8 (1984), issue : pp.233-260.
Does the Cause Make the Martyr? Sebastian Castellio and John Calvin Debate the Execution of Michael Servetus
in: The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Christian Martyrdom , pp. 271-286
Chichester: John Wiley, 2020.
The Peopled Page: Polemic, Confutation, and Foxe's Book of Martyrs
in: The Iconic Page in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Culture, pp. 113-117
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998.
The martyrdom of Jan van Essen and Hendrik Voes (1563)
from: Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
(1651)
from: Samuel Clarke, A Generall Martyrologie (London, 1651)
Bibliographie des martytologes protestants neerlandais. 2 Vol
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff , 1890.
Friends Sufferings—Collected and Recollected
in: Quaker History , v. 61 (1972), issue 1: pp.24-35.