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
Relación del martirio de Tomas Haso, inclito mártir de Iesu Christo, y de Nicolas Sisburno Ingleses, y de una muger varonil: con otros avisos importantes, embiados por un sacerdote del Seminario de Sevilla, testigo de vista que fue de todo
Granada: Antonio René Lazcano, 1615.
Relacion verdadera, embiada al seminario de Sevilla, por un padre de la Compañia de Jesus, que esta preso en Inglaterra entre muchos otros sacerdotes. Dase quenta de la prision de deziseys mil christianos, y de los crueles martyrios que algunos an padecido
Granada: Bartolomé Lorenzana, 1615.
Restitution to the royal author, or, A Vindication of King Charls the Martyr's most excellent book intitutled 'Eikåon basilikåe' from the false, scandalous, and malicious reflections lately published against it
London: Samuel Keble, 1691.
The Court Career Death Shaddow'd to Life. Or Shadowes of Life and Death. A Pasquil Dialogue Seriously Perused and Highly Approved by the Clearest Judgments
[London]: n.p., 1659.
The English Devil: Or, Cromwel and His Monstrous Witch Discover'd at White-Hall: With the Strange and Damnable Speech of This Hellish Monster, by Way of Revelation, Touching King and Kingdom; and a Narrative of the Infernal Plots, Inhumane Actings, and Barbarous Conspiracies of This Grand Impostor, and Most Audacious Rebel, That Durst Aspire From a Brew-House to the Throne, Washing His Accursed Hands in the Blood of His Royal Soveraign; and Trampling Over the Heads of the Most Loyal Subjects, Making a Foot-ball of a Crown, and Endeavouring Utterly to Extirpate the Royal Progeny, Root and Kinde, Stem and Stock
London: Robert Wood; George Horton, 1660.
The Famous Tragedie of King Charles I. Basely Butchered by Those Who Are, Omne nefas proni patare pudoris inanes crudeles, violenti, importunique tyranni mendaces, falsi, perversi, perfidiosi, faedifragi, falsis verbis infunda loquentes. In Which Is Included, The Several Combinations and Machinations That Brought That Incomparable Prince to the Block, the Overtures Hapning at the Famous Seige of Colchester, the Tragicall Fals of Sir Charls Lucas and Sir George Lisle, the Just Reward of the Leveller Rainsborough, Hamilton and Bailies Trecheries, in Delivering the Late Scottish Army Into the Hands of Cromwell, and the Designe the Rebels Have, to Destroy the Royal Posterity
n.p.: n.p., 1649.
Theatrum Crudelitatum haereticorum nostri temporis.
Antwerp : Adrianum Hubert, 1587.
The first examinacyon of Anne Askewe, latelye martyred in Smythfelde, by the Romysh popes vpholders, with the elucydacyon of Iohan Bale
Marburg: D. van der Straten, 1546.