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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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.

Royal, S. ; Middleton, P. (Ed.)

The Blood of the Martyrs is the Seed of the Nation: Martyrdom in Reformation England

in: The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Christian Martyrdom , pp. 338-354

Chichester: John Wiley, 2020.

Ryrie, A. ; Loades, D (Ed.)

The Unsteady Beginnings of English Protestant Martyrology

in: John Foxe: An Historical Perspective, pp. 52-66

Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999.

Sprunger, K. L.

Dutch Anabaptists and the Telling ofMartyr Stories

in: Mennonite Quarterly Review, v. 80 (2006), issue : pp.149-183.

Studer, G. C.

A History of the Martyrs' Mirror

in: Mennonite Quarterly Review, v. 22 (1948), issue : pp.163-179.


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