Practitioners of an extreme form of self-mortification

A Christian procession carrying a canopy and a statue of the Virgin Mary through a town, including flagellants. Etching by P. Tanje, 1743.

A procession of flagellants. Etching.

A treatise of the use of flogging in venerial affairs : also of the office of the loins and reins ... / by John Henry Meibomius ; made English from the Latin original by a physician.

A procession of flagellants. Engraving by François Morellon de la Cave.

226, that is, 426 pages : plates. ; 22 cm (8vo)

Memorials of human superstition ; being a paraphrase and commentary on the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbé Boileau, Doctor of the Sorbonne ... / By one who is not Doctor of the Sorbonne.

273 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

The strange death of Private White : a Victorian scandal that made history / Harry Hopkins.

xxiv, 269 pages, 3 unnumbered pages Note: Advertisements on pages[1-3] at end ; 22 cm

Curious cases of flagellation in France : considered from a legal, medical and historical standpoint with reference to analogous cases in England, Germany, Italy, America, Australia and the Soudan.

Dissertatione philologico-historica ... [malkut] sive, Ritum flagellandi apud Judaeos ... / Sub praesidio ... Aegidii Strauchii ... Exponit ac proponit M. Johannes Jacobus Seyppelius.

9 unnumbered leaves, 341 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves ; (8vo)

Historia flagellantium. De recto et perverso flagrorum usu apud Christianos / [Anon.] Ex antiquis Scripturae, patrum, pontificum, conciliorum, & scriptorum profanorum monumentis cum curâ & fide expressa.

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Memorials of human superstition ; being a paraphrase and commentary on the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbé Boileau, Doctor of the Sorbonne ... / By one who is not Doctor of the Sorbonne.

The strange death of Private White : a Victorian scandal that made history / Harry Hopkins.

Curious cases of flagellation in France : considered from a legal, medical and historical standpoint with reference to analogous cases in England, Germany, Italy, America, Australia and the Soudan.

Dissertatione philologico-historica ... [malkut] sive, Ritum flagellandi apud Judaeos ... / Sub praesidio ... Aegidii Strauchii ... Exponit ac proponit M. Johannes Jacobus Seyppelius.

Historia flagellantium. De recto et perverso flagrorum usu apud Christianos / [Anon.] Ex antiquis Scripturae, patrum, pontificum, conciliorum, & scriptorum profanorum monumentis cum curâ & fide expressa.

Flagellants

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Memorials of human superstition ; being a paraphrase and commentary on the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbé Boileau, Doctor of the Sorbonne ... / By one who is not Doctor of the Sorbonne.

The strange death of Private White : a Victorian scandal that made history / Harry Hopkins.

Curious cases of flagellation in France : considered from a legal, medical and historical standpoint with reference to analogous cases in England, Germany, Italy, America, Australia and the Soudan.

Dissertatione philologico-historica ... [malkut] sive, Ritum flagellandi apud Judaeos ... / Sub praesidio ... Aegidii Strauchii ... Exponit ac proponit M. Johannes Jacobus Seyppelius.

Historia flagellantium. De recto et perverso flagrorum usu apud Christianos / [Anon.] Ex antiquis Scripturae, patrum, pontificum, conciliorum, & scriptorum profanorum monumentis cum curâ & fide expressa.

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