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Bare Backs
Birch Rod
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Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles
Cope Land
corporal
corporal punishment history
correction
Cutty Stool
disciplinary practices
Drawing Back
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eroticism in historical context
Fac Simile
Family Herald
Golden Bells
Henry III
historical flagellation research
Holy Man
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Innocent's Day
Innocent’s Day
judicial corporal practices
La Trappe
ladies
Lord's Day
Lord’s Day
Madame de-Genlis
Mar Garet
monastic discipline studies
penitential rituals
Pope Gregory The Great
Private Discipline
punishment
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Venus Callipyge
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Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138971790
- Weight: 1100g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
The late Rev WILLIAM M. COOPER was an expert on the history of flagellation and discipline.
