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Salvation at Stake : Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe / Brad S. Gregory.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harvard Historical Studies ; 134Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: 2001Description: 1 online resource (544 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780674037939
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 273.6
LOC classification:
  • BR307
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- A Note on Translations and Orthography -- 1 A Complex of Martyrs -- 2 The Late Medieval Inheritance -- 3 The Willingness to Kill -- 4 The Willingness to Die -- 5 Witnesses for the Gospel: Protestants and Martyrdom -- 6 Nachfolge Christi: Anabaptists and Martyrdom -- 7 The New Saints: Roman Catholics and Martyrdom -- 8 The Conflict of Interpretations -- Conclusion: A Shared and Shattered Worldview -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index
Summary: Thousands of men and women were executed for incompatible religious views in sixteenth-century Europe. The meaning and significance of those deaths are studied here comparatively for the first time, providing a compelling argument for the importance of martyrdom as both a window onto religious sensibilities and a crucial component in the formation of divergent Christian traditions and identities. Gregory explores Protestant, Catholic, and Anabaptist martyrs in a sustained fashion, addressing the similarities and differences in their self-understanding. He traces the processes and impact of their memorialization by co-believers, and he reconstructs the arguments of the ecclesiastical and civil authorities responsible for their deaths. In addition, he assesses the controversy over the meaning of executions for competing views of Christian truth, and the intractable dispute over the distinction between true and false martyrs. He employs a wide range of sources, including pamphlets, martyrologies, theological and devotional treatises, sermons, songs, woodcuts and engravings, correspondence, and legal records. Reconstructing religious motivation, conviction, and behavior in early modern Europe, Gregory shows us the shifting perspectives of authorities willing to kill, martyrs willing to die, martyrologists eager to memorialize, and controversialists keen to dispute.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- A Note on Translations and Orthography -- 1 A Complex of Martyrs -- 2 The Late Medieval Inheritance -- 3 The Willingness to Kill -- 4 The Willingness to Die -- 5 Witnesses for the Gospel: Protestants and Martyrdom -- 6 Nachfolge Christi: Anabaptists and Martyrdom -- 7 The New Saints: Roman Catholics and Martyrdom -- 8 The Conflict of Interpretations -- Conclusion: A Shared and Shattered Worldview -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index

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Thousands of men and women were executed for incompatible religious views in sixteenth-century Europe. The meaning and significance of those deaths are studied here comparatively for the first time, providing a compelling argument for the importance of martyrdom as both a window onto religious sensibilities and a crucial component in the formation of divergent Christian traditions and identities. Gregory explores Protestant, Catholic, and Anabaptist martyrs in a sustained fashion, addressing the similarities and differences in their self-understanding. He traces the processes and impact of their memorialization by co-believers, and he reconstructs the arguments of the ecclesiastical and civil authorities responsible for their deaths. In addition, he assesses the controversy over the meaning of executions for competing views of Christian truth, and the intractable dispute over the distinction between true and false martyrs. He employs a wide range of sources, including pamphlets, martyrologies, theological and devotional treatises, sermons, songs, woodcuts and engravings, correspondence, and legal records. Reconstructing religious motivation, conviction, and behavior in early modern Europe, Gregory shows us the shifting perspectives of authorities willing to kill, martyrs willing to die, martyrologists eager to memorialize, and controversialists keen to dispute.

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In English.

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