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An illustrated history of the rod

Title
An illustrated history of the rod / William M. Cooper.
ISBN
1853269182
9781853269189
Published
Ware, England : Wordsworth Editions, 1988.
Physical Description
xi, 544 p., 20 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 12, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [535]-538) and index.
Contents
Introduction
A learned controversy to begin with
A brief summary of another curious controversy
Flagellation among the Jews
Flagellation among the Romans, &c.
Flagellations in monasteries and convents
Flagellation among the Carmelites
Flagellation among the Cistercians, Trappists, and other orders of monks and nuns
Flagellation among the Franciscans and similar religious orders
Discipline among the Carthusians and other orders
Flagellation among the Dominicans and in connection with the Inquisition
Flagellation among the Jesuits
The sect of the Flagellants
The Flagellants (continued)
Cornelius Hadrien and the Disciplina Gynopygica
The celebrated case of Father Girard and Miss Cadiere
Penal flagellation
The flagellation of Quakers and political persons
Whipping of thieves and garrotters
Penal and church flagellation in Scotland
Flagellation in Scotland (continued)
Whipping in Bridewell and other prisons
The reputed curative and medicinal powers of the rod
Celestial castigation
Flagellation among Eastern nations
The rod in Russia
The knout
The sad story of the nuns of Minsk
Flagellation in Africa
Flagellation in America
The flogging of slaves
Flagellation in France
Flagellation in France (continued)
The rod in Germany and Holland
Military flogging
Military punishments : the flogging of Somerville of the Scots Greys
Flogging in the navy
Anecdotes of domestic flagellation in foreign countries
Anecdotes of domestic birch at home
Extracts from the diary of a lady of quality
Discipline in an English charity school a hundred years ago
School punishments
Additional anecdotes of school punishments
On the whipping of young ladies
Birch according to the "Family Herald"
"Birch in the boudoir"
Instruments of whipping, &c.
The Rodiad and other poems
The anthology of the rod
Eccentric and miscellaneous flagellation.
Subjects (Local Yale)
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