The project focuses on religious sacrifice from the Late Middle Ages to modern times. It compares the different European Christian denominations following the Reformation, broadening its scope to the global context (Islam and Asian empires). The group analyzes a wide spectrum of images and sources (biblical comments; historical, normative and comparative texts; political, philosophical and anthropological reflections; missionary correspondences). In particular, it concentrates on the following themes: the persistence of the idea of holy war and the use of biblical figures as models of sacrifice during the era of religious conflicts in Europe; Catholic sanctity in the early modern age, its ideological use and the rewriting of the meaning of bodily sacrifice; the Protestant martyrologies and the idea of sacrifice in the Radical Reformation; political representations of sacrifice; the birth of the history of religions, with the first comparative reflections on sacrifice; descriptions of the extra-European world (for example, accounts on the rite of satī, in India, and missionary martyrologies).