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Religion and politics

The relationship between 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.

    Christoph Murer | Date: 1622 | Reference: 26658i
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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.

    Romeyn de Hooghe | 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. Bog na mukama. English | Date: [2012]
    • Books

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

    Christopher Hitchens | Date: 2008
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