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A dancing couple from the Pujari caste. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 28675i- Pictures
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Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. Halftone after P.H. Calderon.
Calderon, P. H. (Philip Hermogenes), 1833-1898.Reference: 4825i- Books
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The denunciation of Christ against Jerusalem, considered and applied in a sermon, preached in the parish-church of St. Michael, Cornhill, London; on Friday, December 13, 1776: Being the Day appointed for a General Fast. By Robert Pool Finch, D. D. Rector of that Parish.
Finch, Robert Pool, 1724-1803.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Pictures
King David is forced by God to choose between famine, defeat in battle, or a pestilence. Engraving by M. Ogier, 1676.
Date: [1676?]Reference: 2803333i- Books
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A Serious persuasive to Christian purity. And directions for penitent offenders.
Date: 1709- Archives and manuscripts
Miscellanea XVI
Date: c. 1670Reference: MS.3555- Pictures
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An old Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, with left arm raised above his head, and overgrown fingernails. Gouache painting.
Reference: 566946i- Books
The ransom of the soul : afterlife and wealth in early western Christianity / Peter Brown.
Brown, Peter, 1935-Date: [2015]- Pictures
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Three Hindu ascetics walking on burning embers. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore).
Reference: 567665i- Books
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A short view; or history of the inquisition of the Kingdoms of Spain, Portugal, &c. to this day. Under the following Heads: Its Rise, Progress, and Establishment, Its boundless Jurisdiction, Its Officers, Laws, Customs, Their Judgments, Tortures, Penances, &c. Interspersed with Many curious Relations of Persons who have suffer'd under their Arbitrary Power; particularly that of Isaac Martin, an Englishman, who lay long in Prison at Granada, and was released by the Interposition of his late Majesty King George, whose Account has the Sanction of a Certificate signed by thirteen Bishops at the Instance of Mr Secretary Craggs.
Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]- Pictures
Episodes in British and European history; and the twelve months. Wood engravings by H. White.
White, Henry, -approximately 1861.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 2969774i- Books
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A true account of the murder of the monk of Whitby, by Lord William de Bruce, of Ugglebarnby, Lord Ralph de Piercy of Sneaton, and Allatson, a Freeholder; with the Monk's Pennance laid upon them, to be performed on Ascension-Eve every Year, otherwise to forfeit their Lands to the Abbot of Whitby.
Date: 1795?]- Books
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Discourses on ecclesiastical history: under the following heads: viz. I The matter of ecclesiastical history. II. Rules of Chronology. III. Of Bishops and Clerks. IV. Of the inferior Clergy. V. The Doctrine of the Trinity. VI. The Method of studying. Vii. The Knowledge of the Fathers. Viii. The Necessity of studying Antiquity. IX. The Fall and Decay of Learning. X. The Incontinence of the Clergy. XI. The Deposing of Kings. XII. The Succession of Bishops. XIII. of discipline, Manners, Martyrs, Monks, &c. Reliques, Pilgrimages, Superstitions, Simony, Penances, Censures, Councils, Monasteries, Ceremonies, &c. By Mr. Fleury, an Abbot; Formerly Subpreceptor to the King of Spain, and the Dukes of Burgundy and Berry. Written originally in French, and now done into English.
Fleury, Claude, 1640-1723.Date: 1721- Books
L'infanticide à Gênes à l'époque moderne / Elena Taddia.
Taddia, Elena.Date: 2007- Books
Cultures of shame : exploring crime and morality in Britain 1600-1900 / David Nash, Anne-Marie Kilday.
Nash, David (David S.)Date: 2010- Books
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The history of the inquisition, as it subsists in the kingdoms of Spain, Portugal, &c. And in both the Indies, to this Day. Comprehending as well an entertaining Series of its Transactions, as an exact Account of its Constitution, Power, &c. under the following Heads: I. Its Rise, Progress, and Establishment. II. The extraordinary Methods taken to support it. III. The almost boundless Jurisdiction of this Court; its Officers, Laws, Customs, &c. IV. The Nature of its Proceedings against Hereticks. V. The Judgments, Penances, Executions, &c. Interspersed with various, extraordinary, and particular relations concerning the treatment of persons prosecuted in that court; as of Isaac Martin, an Englishman, who lay long in Prison at Granada, in the Reign of the late King George; and whose Account has the Sanction of a Certificate signed by both Archbishops, and by thirteen Bishops, at the Instance of Mr. Secretary Craggs: With many other genuine Cases, extracted from credible Authors, and from Original Papers. To which is added, an appendix of necessary records, and various Original Letters on the Conduct of the Inquisition, hitherto never printed. Compiled and translated by the Reverend J. Baker, M. A. Illustrated with Copper Plates.
Baker, J., Rev., M.A.Date: M.DCC.XXXIV. [1734]- Books
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Four discourses upon the excellency and usefulness of ecclesiastical history: Viz. I. Of the subject matter of ecclesiastical history; the stile, chronology, doctrine, discipline, manners, and method of writing it. II. Of the government of the church, and of the superiour and inferiour clergy. The method of studying divinity and antiquity. Of the knowledge and eloquence of the fathers, and of the doctrine of the trinity. III. Of the rise and decay of learning; of relicks, pilgrimages, superstitions, temporalities of the clergy, riches of churches, the corruption of manners, incontinence of the clergy, simony, penances, censures, the deposing of kings, succession of bishops, councils, schools, monasteries, ceremonies, propagation of the faith, with an apology for the five first centuries. IV. Of the authority of bishops, translations, erections, appeals, extension of the pope's authority, immunities of the clergy, temporal power of the church, and inconveniences from thencearising. Of legates, pecuniary subventions, rigour against hereticks, indulgencies, and the necessity of telling the whole truth. By the Abbot Fleury, sub-preceptor to the King of Spain, and to the Dukes of Burgundy and Berry. Made English from the French original.
Fleury, Claude, 1640-1723.Date: 1721- Books
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Three discourses: I. Concerning transubstantiation. II. Concerning invocation of angels and saints. III. Concerning the worship of images. With an appendix concerning the Pretended Sacraments of Pennance and Extreme Unotion: Wherein the Controversy is fairly Stated, and the Arguments on both sides with all Plainness and Perspicuity offer'd to the View and Judgment of the Impartial Reader. Compos'd chiefly for the Instruction and Conviction of those of the Romish Church. By a native of this kingdom, and an Inhabitant of the Queen's-County. To which is Prefix'd A Letter concerning the Pretended Infallibility of the Romish Church. By another Hand.
J. M., Native of this kingdom.Date: MDCCVII. [1707]- Pictures
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Top: Chinese men seeking alms by threatening to kill themselves by self-mutilation, one (left) kneeling to hit his head against a rock, and the other (right) with burning herbs on his head; below, a monk being whipped as a punishment for promiscuity. Engraving by C. Du Bosc after B. Picart after J. Nieuhof.
Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672.Date: 1730-1739Reference: 37983i- Books
Last things : death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages / edited by Caroline Walker Bynum and Paul Freedman.
Date: [2000], ©2000- Books
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A commentary on The book of common-prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, &c. Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Being A Paraphrase on the Sunday and Holiday-Services, Epistles and Gospels throughout the Year: With Notes on all the Rubricks, giving an Account of all the Festivals and Saints-Days observed in the Church; as also of the Lives of the Saints, and Days of Distinction mention'd in the Calendar; of the Compilers and Reviewers of our Common-Prayer; of the Ancient Use of Liturgies, of Lessons, Psalmody, Calendars, &c. Of the Defects of the Romish Breviary and Missals, of Horary Times, Sundays, Holidays; of Paschal Cycles, Synagogues, Churches, Chancels, Bells, Church-Musick, Vestments; of Synaxes and Rites observed in the Communion; of Baptismal Rites, of Catechists and Catechumens; with the Method of Catechising, in a full Exposition of the Catechism of the Church of England; Confirmation, Sponsors, and Vicarious Interrogatories; of Matrimonial Contracts, Paranymphs, Impediments, &c. of Prayers for the Sick, and other Ancient Usages concerning Clinicks; of Absolutions, Penances, Sepulture, &c. With a Paraphrase on the whole Book of Psalms, according to the Common-Prayer-Book Translation. The Text of the Whole being Compared and Amended, according to the Sealed Books; And the Psalms Compared with the Translation of the Great Bible. At the End of the Book are subjoined, The Additional Notes of Bishop Andrews, Bishop Cosins, &c. By William Nicholls, D. D.
Nicholls, William, 1664-1712.Date: MDCCXII. [1712]- Books
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A comment on the Book of common-prayer, and administration of the sacraments, &c. Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Being A Paraphrase on the Sunday and Holiday-Services, Epistles and Gospels throughout the Year: With Notes on all the Rubricks, giving an Account of all the Festivals and Saints-Days observed in the Church; as also of the Lives of the Saints, and Days of Distinction mention'd in the Calendar; of the Compilers and Reviewers of our Common-Prayer; of the Ancient Use of Liturgies, of Lessons, Psalmody, Calendars, &c. Of the Defects of the Romish Breviary and Missals, of Horary Times, Sundays, Holidays; of Paschal Cycles, Synagogues, Churches, Chancels, Bells, Church-Musick, Vestments; of Synaxes and Rites observed in the Communion; of Baptismal Rites, of Catechists and Catechumens; with the Method of Catechising, in a full Exposition of the Catechism of the Church of England; Confirmation, Sponsors, and Vicarious Interrogatories; of Matrimonial Contracts, Paranymphs, Impediments, &c. of Prayers for the Sick, and other Ancient Usages concerning Clinicks; of Absolutions, Penances, Sepulture, &c. With a Paraphrase on the whole Book of Psalms, according to the Common-Prayer-Book Translation. The Text of the Whole being Compared and Amended, according to the Sealed Books; And the Psalms Compared with the Translation of the Great Bible. At the end are the Book are subjoined, The additional notes of Bishop Andrews, Bishop Cosins, &c. By William Nicholls. D.D.
Nicholls, William, 1664-1712.Date: MDCCX. [1710]- Books
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A comment on the book of common-prayer, and administration of the sacraments, &c. Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Being a paraphrase on the Sunday and holiday-services, epistles and Gospels throughout the year: with notes on all the rubricks, giving an account of all the festivals and saints-days observed in the Church; as also of the lives of the saints, and days of distinction mention'd in the calendar; of the compilers and reviewers of our common-prayer; of the ancient use of liturgies, of lessons, Psalmody, calendars, &c. Of the defects of the Romish Breviary and Missals, of Horary times, Sundays, holidays; of Paschal cycles, synagogues, churches, chancels, bells, church-musick, vestments; of synaxes and rites observed in the communion; of baptismal rites, of catechists and catechumens; with the method of catechising, in a full exposition of the catechism of the Church of England; confirmation, sponsors, and vicarious interrogatories; of matrimonial contracts, paranymphs, impediments, &c. Of prayers for the sick, and other ancient usages concerning clinicks; of absolutions, penances, sculpture, &c. With a paraphrase on the whole book of Psalms, according to the common-prayer-book translation. The text of the whole being compared and amended, according to the sealed books; and the Psalms compared with the translation of the great Bible. At the end of the book are subjoined, the additional notes of Bishop Andrews, Bishop Cosins, &c. By William Nicholls, D.D.
Nicholls, William, 1664-1712.Date: MDCCX. [1710]- Pictures
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A Hindu ascetic, or holy man: seated in the lotus position on a leopard skin, with withered arms raised above his head. Coloured stipple engraving, 1814.
Date: Jany. 1814Reference: 567689i- Videos
Medieval lives : birth, marriage, death. 1/3, A good birth.
Date: 2013