Topic: 7. Sacrifices of self: Martirology and Catholic global missions (16th-18th Century)
From the sixteenth to the eighteenth Century, Catholic missionary endeavors across the globe produced a wealth of sources that shed light on various forms of sacrifice. These sources often intertwine factual accounts with the emphasis on martyrdom, adopting specific theological, narrative, and iconographic frameworks. This section presents a comprehensive collection of early modern printed sources and images that illustrate these dynamics. Additionally, it includes a thorough bibliography covering scholarly works from the 19th to 21st centuries, providing contemporary insights into the historical context and significance of these sacrifices.
Fonti Ricciane
Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 1942-49.
Storia dell’ Introduzione del Christianesimo in Cina
Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 1942-49.
They Need Nothing: Hispanic-Asian Encounters of the Colonial Period
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
Triumphos, coronas, tropheos, de la perseguida Yglesia de Iapon
Mexico City: Viuda de Diego Garrido, 1628.
Separacion y singularidad entre los veinte y seis protomartyres del Japon de San Felipe de Jesus, Indiano, Patricio, y Patron de Mexico
Mexico City: Francisco de Rivera Calderon, 1715.
Preparation for a Suttee (1816)
British Library, London (http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html)
Relación de la persecvcion qve tvbo la iglesia en el Iapon en dos años, es a saber, desde el 1626 hasta el 1628
Barcelona: Francisco Cormellas, 1669.
Fuentes sobre los misioneros agustinos recoletos martirizados en el Japón
Rome: Institutum Historicum Augustinianorum Recollectorum, Subsidia 6, 1985.
João Rodrigues’s Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan
London: The Hakluyt Society, 2001.
Vida y martirio del Beato Juan de Prado, primer Provincial Franciscano de la de San Diego de Andalucia. Por D. Domingo Rodríguez Prieto, presbítero
Ciudad Rodrigo: Imprenta de la Viuda e Hijos de Cuadrado, 1901.
Jaerlijcken Brief van Japonien Van het Iaer 1624
Mechelen: Hendrick Jaye, 1628.
Lettera annua del Giappone del 1609 e 1610
Rome: Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1615.
The palme of Christian fortitude. Or the glorious combats of Christians in Iaponia
Saint-Omer: Printed by the widow of Charles Boscard, 1630.
Religious Literature and its Institutional Contexts: Prelude to the Study of Spanish Accounts of Christian Martyrdom in Tokugawa Japan
in: Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte-Archive for Reformation History , v. 108 (2017), issue 1: pp.153-161.