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Religion and politics

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  • King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.
  • The first stone and inlaid coins of Holloway prison. Lithograph by C.M. Firth.
  • King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.
  • Two men walking above a city; representing harmony of religious or political states. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
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    Two men walking above a city; representing harmony of religious or political states. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.

    Murer, Christoph, 1558-1614. | Date: 1622 | Reference: 26658i
    Part of: XL Emblemata miscella nova
    • Pictures

    King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.

    Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708. | Date: 1689 | Reference: 17522i
    • Ephemera

    Religion ephemera. Box 1.

    • Books

    God in pain : inversions of Apocalypse / Slavoj Žižek and Boris Gunjević ; Boris Gunjević's chapters translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursać.

    Žižek, Slavoj | Date: [2012]
    • Books

    God is not great : how religion poisons everything / Christopher Hitchens.

    Hitchens, Christopher | Date: 2008
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