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
Reliquiae sacrae Carolinae. Or the Works of That Great Monarch and Glorious Martyr King Charles the I. Collected Together, and Digested in Order According to Their Several Subjects, Civil and Sacred
Hague [London]: Samuel Brown [William Dugard; Francis Eglesfield], 1650.
Persecutio undecima, or, The churches eleventh persecution being a brief of the fanatick persecution of the Protestant clergy of the Church of England, more particularly within the city of London: begun in Parliament, Anno Dom. 1641, and printed in the year 1648.
London: n. p., 1648.
Anabaptisticum et enthusiasticum Pantheon und geistliches Rüst-Hauss wider die alten Quacker, und neuen Frey-Geister, welche die Kirche Gottes zeithero verunruhiget, und bestürmet, auch treue Lehrer und Prediger Göttlichen Worts, verachtet, verleumbdet, gelästert und verfolget haben: mit vielen zur Sache dienlichen und nützlichen Kupffern, bloss zu Gottes Ehre und Erhaltung seiner Christlichen Kirchen, auch den Geistlichen, Weltlichen und Hausstande zur Nachricht, Nutz und besten zusammen getragen und auffgerichtet
n. p. : n. p., 1702.
Apophtegmata martyrum, das ist, Denckwürdige Reden, welche die heiligen Märtyrer vom Jahr 1415 biss auf 1573 auss des heiligen Geistes trieb, in währender ihrer Gefängnuss und bey Vollziehung des uber sie gefällten Tod-Urtheils, zur Erbawung der Kirchen, Stärkung unsers Glaubens und Uberzeug- und Beschämung der Feinden der Warheit herfür gebracht haben / wie solche D. Paulus Crocius in seinem grossen Martyr-Buch verzeichnet; kürtzlich aussgezogen und zusammen getragen durch M. Rudolph Huber, Diener am Wort Gottes zu Schaffhausen
Zurich: Johann Heinrich Hamberger, Wilhelm Simlers, 1664.
Martyrs in flames, or, Popery (in its true colours) displayed. Being a brief relation of the horrid cruelties and persecutions of the Pope and Church of rome for many hundred years past, to this present age, inflicted upon Protestants in Piedmont ...: With an abstract of the cruel persecution lately exercised upon the Protestants in France and Savoy, in the year 1686 and 1687..: Together with a short account of Gods judgment upon popish persecutors. Published for a warning to all Protestants, what they must expect from that bloody generation of Antichristians. By R.B.
London: Nath. Crouch, 1693.
The Church History of England, from the Year 1500, to the Year 1688, Chiefly with Regards to Catholicks: Being a Complete Account of the Divorce, Supremacy, Dissolution of Monasteries, and First Attempts for a Reformation Under Eduard VI. The Interruption it Met Under Queen Mary I; With the Last Hand put to it by Queen Elizabeth I: Together with the Various Fortunes of the Catholick Cause Under the Reigns of King James I, King Charles I, King Charles II, and King James II. Particularly, the Lives of the Most Eminent Catholicks, Cardinals, Bishops, Inferior Clergy, Regulars, and Laymen, who Have Distinguished Themselves by the Piety, Learning, or Military Abilities: Also, a Distinct and Critical Account of the Works of the Learned: the TRials of Those That Suffered Either on the Score of Religion, or for Real or Fictitious Plots Against the Government: With the Foundation of the English Colleges and Monasteries Abroad. The Whole Supported by Original Papers and Letters; Many Whereof Were Never Before Made Publick.
Brussles: n. p. , 1737.
Pseudo-martyr: wherein out of certaine propositions, this conclusion is evicted, that those which are of the Romane religion may and ought to take the oath of allegiance
London: W. Stansby, Walter burre, 1610.
The Devil's martyrs: or, plain dealing, in answer to the Jacobite speeches of those two Perjured Rebels William Paul, a Clergyman, and John Hall, a Justice of Peace; fairly proving, no British subject can be a true son of the Church of England that dies asserting that the Pretender has any rights to his Majesty's Crown. To which is added, The high-church martyrology: ... Written by Mr. John Dunton.
London: John Dunton, 1716.