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1882
Volume 15, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 1846-8551
  • E-ISSN: 2507-041X

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In Christian thought and imagination, martyrdom is a fundamental expression of religious belief. During the Early Modern wars of religion and in an age of conflictive relationships between Europeans and their Eastern neighbors, biblical martyrdom, and in particular infant martyrdom, was used as a metaphor to represent contemporary killings and massacres. This article studies representations of real massacres as scenes of martyrdom in early modern Europe during two centuries that go from the fall of Constantinople to the Thirty Years’ War. The text starts with a brief description of the iconography of martyrdom that emerged at the end of the Middle Ages and soon after became topical. Next it discusses the use of this iconography to represent massacres in realistic, propagandistic, and artistic imagery. It also discusses the construction of identities based on the display of innocence and victimhood, and the emergence of a religious Other (Muslim, Catholic, and Protestant in each respective case) imagined as cruel and barbaric.

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U kršćanskoj misli i imaginaciji, mučeništvo je temeljni izraz religijskog vjerovanja. Tijekom ranonovovjekovnih religijskih ratova i u doba konfliktnih odnosa između Europljana i njihovih istočnih susjeda, biblijsko mučeništvo, a posebno mučeništvo male djece, korišteno je kao metafora za predstavljanje suvremenih ubojstava i pokolja. Ovaj članak proučava prikaze stvarnih pokolja kao prizora mučeništva u ranoj modernoj Europi tijekom dva stoljeća: od pada Carigrada do Tridesetogodišnjeg rata. Tekst počinje kratkim opisom ikonografije mučeništva koja je nastala krajem srednjeg vijeka i ubrzo postala često korištena. Zatim se raspravlja o uporabi ove ikonografije za prikaze masakra u realističkim, propagandističkim i umjetničkim slikama. Također se raspravlja o izgradnji identiteta temeljenih na prikazima nevinih i žrtava, te o pojavi religijskog Drugog (muslimana, katolika i protestanata u zasebnim primjerima) zamišljenog kao okrutnog i barbarskog.

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