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
Commentarii rerum in ecclesia gestarum, maximarumque per totam Europam, persecutionum, a Vuicleui temporibus ad hanc usque aetatem descriptio, Liber primus
Strasbourg: Wendelinus Rihelius, 1554.
The life and death of Mr. Edmund Geninges priest, crowned with martyrdome at London, the 10. day of Nouember, in the yeare M.D.XCI.
Saint Omer: Charles Boscard, 1614.
A cry from the dead, or, the ghost of the famous Mr. James Guthrie appearing: Being the last sermon he preached in the pulpit of Stirling, before his martyrdom at Edinburgh, June 1661. To which is added, his last speech upon the Scaffold.
Glasgow: William Duncan, 1738.
A briefe relation of the death and sufferings of the Most Reverend and renowned prelate, the L. Archbishop of Canterbury with a more perfect copy of his speech, and other passages on the scaffold, than hath beene hitherto imprinted.
Oxford: n. p. , 1644.
3. Sacrifice and politics (16th-18th Century) 6. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology after Reformation (16th-18th Century)
A consolatorie epistle to the afflicted catholikes, set foorth by Thomas Hide Priest.
East Ham: Stephen Brinkley, 1580.
Dr. Hollingworth's Defence of K. Charles the First's Holy and Divine Book, Called Eikon Basilikē; Against the Rude and Undutiful Assaults of the Late Dr. Walker of Essex. Proving by Living and Unquestionable Evidences, the Aforesaid Book to Be That Royal Martyr's, and Not Dr. Gauden's
London: Samuel Eddowes, 1692.
The Death of King Charles I Proved a Down-Right Murder, With the Aggravations of It. In a Sermon at St. Botolph Aldgate, London, January 30, 1692/3. To Which Are Added, Some Just Reflections Upon Some Late Papers, Concerning That King's Book
London: R. Norton; Walter Kettilby, 1693.
Vindiciae Carolinae, or, A Defence of Eikon basilikē, the Portraicture of His Sacred Majesty in His Solitudes and Sufferings in Reply to a Book Intituled Eikonoklastes, Written by Mr. Milton, and Lately Re-Printed at Amsterdam
London: J.L.; Luke Meredith, 1692.