A martyr, meaning a witness to the truth of the Christian faith, would, in the early days of the Christian religion, often endure death as a result of their testimony. The term therefore rapidly came to signify those who had been put to death for their faith. In the Reformation era, th...
On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the murders, at a time when the Defense Committee is beginning to feel increasingly optimistic about a possible commutation of Peltier's sentence, some of his old colleagues in the American Indian Movement have taken to attacking one another publicly, ...
even if it were only a “one-time” lie. In most instances of martyrdom, the martyr could have escaped a death sentence simply by pretending to deny his faith. Escape from a painful death was just one
In this chapter, I investigate how Joyce Carol Oates has conceptualised martyrdom in terms of gender and non-human animal perspectives in “Martyrdom” (1994). I suggest that a biopolitical approach to gendered violence and to the instrumentalisation of animal bodies allows the revelation of system...
What follows is a translation of the second part of this Latin pamphlet, which provides more of a summary report of what happened and names the inquisitors. We do not know the identity of the author. The final sentence suggests his home was in Basel but he had taken a trip to Brussels...
When reading them, one notices a common refrain: when questioned, the accused would cry out: “I am a Christian,” which was the equivalent of saying, “I am guilty as charged.” In an era when such an admission carried a death sentence, these authentic testimonies provide a convincing ...
publishing Martin’s book Carter took this passage to be so, but Topcliffe read into the words a thinly veiled call for the assassination of Queen Elizabeth I. In the margin Topcliffe drew a sinister sketch of his accusing finger pointing to what ...
at a time when the Defense Committee is beginning to feel increasingly optimistic about a possible commutation of Peltier's sentence, some of his old colleagues in the American Indian Movement have taken to attacking one another publicly, calling up old ghosts and striking at some of the key po...
In a reading of Gryphius’ Catharina von Georgien within its political and confessional context of Silesia at the end of the Thirty Years’ War, this article analyzes the transformation of the Christian martyr cult within early modern German tragedy. It argues that Gryphius used the hagiographic ty...