Fictions of Sacrifice

Francesco Quatrini is Senior Assistant Professor in Early Modern History at the University of Florence. He is the author of Adam Boreel (1602–1665): A Collegiant's Attempt to Reform Christianity (2021) and I sociniani. Una chiesa ereticale in lotta con la cristianità (1563–1638) (2023). He is currently working on a monograph on the Dutch Collegiant movement.Freya Sierhuis is Senior Lecturer at the Department of English and Related Literature of the University of York. She is the author of The Literature of the Arminian Controversy: Religion, Politics and the Stage in the Dutch Republic (2015) and the co-editor of Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Europe (2013) and Fulke Greville and the Literary Culture of the English Renaissance. She is currently working on a monograph on the Dutch poet and playwright Joost van den Vondel (1587–1679)

• 1. Introduction – Sacrifice in Late Mediaeval and Early Modern Europe2. Self-Sacrifice and Kiddush ha-Shem: The Martyrdom of the Portuguese Conversos of Ancona (1556)3. Sacrifice, the Law of Nature, and Political Thought in Early Modern Catholicism4. Until Death: Self-Sacrifice and Inquisitorial Apologetics in Early Modern Italy5. Beyond Tragedy: Erasmus, Origen and Euripides on Sacrifice6. The Mosaic Distinction and Dramatic Form: Sacrifice in the Tragedies of Joost van den Vondel (1587–1679)7. Joachim Oudaan’s Servetus: Collegiant Treurspel, Socinianism and the Vicissitudes of Martyrology8. Two Ideas of Theocracy: Erastus, Beza and Toleration9. Cannibals, Cross, and Crown: Catholic and Indigenous Religion in the Making of English Protestant Identity during Francis Drake’s Circumnavigation of the World10. Sacrifice and Magistracy: From Faustus Socinus to Jan Crell