Salvation at Stake : : Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe / / Brad S. Gregory.
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 sensi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard Historical Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (544 p.) |
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Table of 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