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Book The History of the Rod

Download or read book The History of the Rod written by James Glass Bertram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Flagellation   the Flagellants

Download or read book Flagellation the Flagellants written by James Glass Bertram and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History Of The Rod

Download or read book The History Of The Rod written by William M. Cooper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005. The line between pain and pleasure is as thin as the tail of a whip, and this classic work is the definitive history of flagellation through the ages. As it shows, flagellation is much more than a punishment - it is also intimately tied to discipline and eroticism, has a romantic and even comic side, and has also been used for medical purposes. No one is above the bite of the birch or rod - convent nuns were chastised severely, queens have been flogged, and even favourites of the sultan have had to endure the whip in the great seraglios. The author deals in great detail with whipping in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, the favourite parts of the body for whipping, flagellation and discipline in monasteries and convents, whipping in prisons, the rod in Russia, flagellation in America, whipping in Europe and the Far East, the flogging of slaves, military flogging, school punishments and the birch in the boudoir, all enlivened with colourful anecdotes. There is a chapter on the instruments of whipping, a selection of ribald and erotic poems on whipping, a section on eccentric forms of whipping such as that practised on prostitutes, many detailed line drawings, descriptive accounts and a full index. The work shows the fundamental place whipping has always played in human history, both publicly and in private, and continues to play today.

Book The Flagellants

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  • Author : Carlene Hatcher Polite
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN : 0374526567
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book The Flagellants written by Carlene Hatcher Polite and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1967 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Flagellants is the story of the romantic relationship between Ideal and Jimson. After a brief prologue establishing Ideal's childhood connection to a black community called "the Bottom," the novel unfolds as a series of arguments between the couple, representing the historical gender conflicts between black men and women."--eNotes.

Book The Black Death

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  • Author : Philip Ziegler
  • Publisher : Faber & Faber
  • Release : 2013-01-17
  • ISBN : 0571287115
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book The Black Death written by Philip Ziegler and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1347 and 1350, the Black Death killed at least one third of Europe's population. Philip Ziegler's classic account traces the course of the virulent epidemic through Europe and its dramatic effect on the lives of those whom it afflicted. First published nearly forty years ago, it remains definitive. 'The clarity and restraint on every page produce a most potent cumulative effect.' Michael Foot

Book The Exhibition of Female Flagellants

Download or read book The Exhibition of Female Flagellants written by Anonymous and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birchgrove Press brings together in one volume two books representing the developing corpus of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century English sexual fiction focusing on flagellation: Exhibition of Female Flagellants (c. 1780) and its sequel, Part the Second of the Exhibition of Female Flagellants (c. 1785). Collections of amusing anecdotes about the pleasures of flogging, these novellas focus on birching in aristocratic domestic and scholastic contexts, emphasise the display of blood, and extol the aphrodisiacal qualities of flowers. The author or authors are not known. Part one, Exhibition of Female Flagellants was first published about 1780, possibly by George Peacock in 1777. Part two, Part the Second of the Exhibition of Female Flagellants, was first published about 1785, probably also by George Peacock. Both books were reprinted in the early nineteenth century and by John Camden Hotten in 1872. This Birchgrove Press edition, which is based on Hotten's reprints, includes an Appendix with bibliographic details excerpted from Pisanus Fraxi's [Henry Spencer Ashbee's] Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1877). Ashbee's record provides a fascinating overview of both books' publishing history.

Book The Black Death

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Aberth
  • Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
  • Release : 2005-03-02
  • ISBN : 9781403968029
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book The Black Death written by John Aberth and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-03-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating account of the phenomenon known as the Black Death, this volume offers a wealth of documentary material focused on the initial outbreak of the plague that ravaged the world in the 14th century. A comprehensive introduction that provides important background on the origins and spread of the plague is followed by nearly 50 documents organized into topical sections that focus on the origin and spread of the illness; the responses of medical practitioners; the societal and economic impact; religious responses; the flagellant movement and attacks on Jews provoked by the plague; and the artistic response. Each chapter has an introduction that summarizes the issues explored in the documents; headnotes to the documents provide additional background material. The book contains documents from many countries - including Muslim and Byzantine sources - to give students a variety of perspectives on this devastating illness and its consequences. The volume also includes illustrations, a chronology of the Black Death, and questions to consider.

Book The Black Death  a Turning Point in History

Download or read book The Black Death a Turning Point in History written by William M. Bowsky and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1971 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Black Death

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  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2013-01-01
  • ISBN : 152611271X
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book The Black Death written by and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series provides texts central to medieval studies courses and focuses upon the diverse cultural, social and political conditions that affected the functioning of all levels of medieval society. Translations are accompanied by introductory and explanatory material and each volume includes a comprehensive guide to the sources' interpretation, including discussion of critical linguistic problems and an assessment of recent research on the topics covered. From 1348 to 1350 Europe was devastated by an epidemic that left between a third and one half of the population dead. This source book traces, through contemporary writings, the calamitous impact of the Black Death in Europe, with a particular emphasis on its spread across England from 1348 to 1349. Rosemary Horrox surveys contemporary attempts to explain the plague, which was universally regarded as an expression of divine vengeance for the sins of humankind. Moralists all had their particular targets for criticism. However, this emphasis on divine chastisement did not preclude attempts to explain the plague in medical or scientific terms. Also, there was a widespread belief that human agencies had been involved, and such scapegoats as foreigners, the poor and Jews were all accused of poisoning wells. The final section of the book charts the social and psychological impact of the plague, and its effect on the late-medieval economy.

Book The History of Corporal Punishment   A Survey of Flagellation in Its Historical Anthropological and Sociological Aspects

Download or read book The History of Corporal Punishment A Survey of Flagellation in Its Historical Anthropological and Sociological Aspects written by George Scott and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of flagellation in its historical, anthropological and sociological aspects. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Book Medieval Bruges

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  • Author : Andrew Brown
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2018-05-03
  • ISBN : 1108318096
  • Pages : 796 pages

Download or read book Medieval Bruges written by Andrew Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruges was undoubtedly one of the most important cities in medieval Europe. Bringing together specialists from both archaeology and history, this 'total' history presents an integrated view of the city's history from its very beginnings, tracing its astonishing expansion through to its subsequent decline in the sixteenth century. The authors' analysis of its commercial growth, industrial production, socio-political changes, and cultural creativity is grounded in an understanding of the city's structure, its landscape and its built environment. More than just a biography of a city, this book places Bruges within a wider network of urban and rural development and its history in a comparative framework, thereby offering new insights into the nature of a metropolis.

Book The Great Mortality

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  • Author : John Kelly
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2006-01-31
  • ISBN : 0060006935
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book The Great Mortality written by John Kelly and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the Black Death. The Great Mortality is the extraordinary epic account of the worst natural disaster in European history -- a drama of courage, cowardice, misery, madness, and sacrifice that brilliantly illuminates humankind's darkest days when an old world ended and a new world was born.

Book The History and Character of Calvinism

Download or read book The History and Character of Calvinism written by John Thomas McNeill and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1923 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a masterful historical portrait of the whole movement of Calvinism for general readers and scholars alike.

Book History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe

Download or read book History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe written by William Edward Hartpole Lecky and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Flagellation

Download or read book The History of Flagellation written by Joseph McCabe and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World

Download or read book Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World written by Valentino Gasparini and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. This volume applies and further develops these methodological tools, new perspectives and new questions. The religious transformations of the Roman Imperial period appear in new light and more nuances by comparative confrontation and the integration of many disciplines. The contributions are written by specialists from a variety of disciplinary contexts (Jewish Studies, Theology, Classics, Early Christian Studies) dealing with the history of religion of the Mediterranean, West-Asian, and European area from the (late) Hellenistic period to the (early) Middle Ages and shaped by their intensive exchange. From the point of view of their respective fields of research, the contributors engage with discourses on agency, embodiment, appropriation and experience. They present innovative research in four fields also of theoretical debate, which are “Experiencing the Religious”, “Switching the Code”, „A Thing Called Body“ and “Commemorating the Moment”.

Book The Black Death

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  • Author : Johannes Nohl
  • Publisher : Westholme Publishing
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9781594160295
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Black Death written by Johannes Nohl and published by Westholme Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed by the New York Times as "unusually interesting both as history and sociological study,"The Black Death: A Chronicle of the Plague traces the ebb and flow of European pandemics over the course of centuries through translations of contemporary accounts. Originally published in 1926 and now in paperback for the first time, Nohl's volume is unique for its geographical and historical scope as well as its combination of detailed accounts and overarching contemporary views of the history of the plague in Europe, a disease that claimed nearly 40 million people during the fourteenth century alone. With current concerns about pandemics, The Black Death provides lessons on how humans reacted to and survived catastrophic loss of life to disease.