History of Flagellation among Different Nations; a Narrative of the Strange Customs and Cruelties of the Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, &c with An Account of its Practice among the Early Christians as a Religious Stimulant and Corrector of Morals. Also Anecdotes of Remarkable Cases of Flogging and of Celebrated Flagellants  
[anonymous]  

[no publisher]    London   1888

90pp   h 19.9 cm * w 13.3 cm


        
  

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Boards: stained, soiled, especially along spine; wearing / rubbing at top and bottom of spine, small holes along spine hinge. Page edges: dust, foxed, unevenly cut. Endpapers: bookplate, pencil notes. Pages: foxing most noticeable on early pages; occasional pencil marks.

Arbery Ref:     001279

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This slender volume is relatively scarce. With no illustrations (unlike the contemporary and considerably more popular History of the Rod), it emphasises flagellation in a Christian context. The first two chapters cover flagellation among the ancient heathens (primarily Greeks and Romans), including descriptions of voluntary flagellations and floggings by schoolmasters. Chapter III suggests that the practice of scourging oneself was unknown among early Christians. Chapters IV to VIII cover the many circumstances in which many clergy, monks and nuns have inflicted pain on themselves and others, including French royalty, in the name of religion. Chapter IX describes public penitents who flog themselves. An appendix of Anecdotes focuses on individuals in the Old and New Worlds who were themselves or who had others flogged in a variety of situations.





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History of Flagellation among Different Nations







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History of the Rod, Rev Wm Cooper, London, n.d. [19th century]
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It is not to be doubted, that flagellations had been invented, and were become, in early times, a common method of punishment in the Pagan world. Even before the foundation of Rome, we meet with instances which prove that it was the usual punishment inflicted on slaves. Justin, in his epitome of Trogus Pompeius, relates that the Scythians more easily overcame their rebellious slaves with scourges and whips, than with their swords. "The Scythians being returned (says Justin) from their expedition in Asia, after having been absent eight years from their wives and children, found they now had a war to wage at home against their own slaves. For, their wives, tired with such long fruitless expectation of their husbands, and concluding that they were no longer detained by war, but had been destroyed, married the slaves who had been left to take care of the cattle; which latter attempted to use their masters, who returned victorious, like strangers, and hinder them, by force of arms, from entering the country. The war having been supported for a while, with success pretty nearly equal on both sides, the Scythians were advised to change their manner of carrying it on, remembering that it was not with enemies, but with their own slaves, that they had to fight; that they were to conquer by dint, not of arms, but of their right as masters; that instead of weapons, they ought to bring lashes into the field, and, setting iron aside, to supply themselves with rods, scourges, and such like instruments of slavish fear. Having approved this counsel the Scythians armed themselves as they were advised to do; and had no sooner come up with their enemies, than they exhibited on a sudden their new weapons, and thereby struck such terror into their minds, that those who could not be conquered by arms, were subdued by the dread of the stripes, and betook themselves to flight, not like a vanquished enemy, but like fugitive slaves."

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