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The sense of suffering : constructions of physical pain in early modern culture / edited by Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen, Karl A.E. Enenkel.
Date: 2009- Books
Virtuous violence : hurting and killing to create, sustain, end, and honor social relationships : the social-relational, moral motivational psychology, cultural anthropology and history of war, torture, genocide, animal and human sacrifice, obedience to gods, religious self-torture, homicide, robbery, intimate partner conflict, rape, suicide and self-harm, corporal and capital punishment, trial by ordeal and combat, policing, initiation, castration, fighting for status, contac sports and martial arts, honor, the Iliad and the Trojan War, injurious mortuary rites, and homicidal mourning / Alan Page Fiske and Tage Shakti Rai ; with a foreword by Steven Pinker.
Fiske, Alan Page, 1947-Date: 2015- Books
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The army regulator: or, the military adventures of Mr. John Railton; giving an account of his particular services in the Horse Grenadiers, the dragoons, the foot, and the train of artillery. Shewing, I. The Frauds practised by the Officers, from the General to the Corporal, to render the poor Private Centinel miserable. II. The Art of Inlisting Men: Or, the Secret History of a remarkable Officer of Dragoons in the Year, 1735. III. Practices after Inlisting, whereby the Horses are deprived of their Corn, the Men of their Money, and the King of his Soldiers, by False Ministers. IV. Proofs of 300 l. a Year, being sunk out of the King's Allowance of 500 l. a Year for a Troop of Dragoons. V. The Sinking-Fund continu'd; near 50,000 l. a Year being sunk by Fagots, and 100,000l. a Year, by furnishing the Forces with Accoutrements, &c. VI. The Author's Sufferings, as a Foot-Soldier, 1736. The Connivance of Trading Justices and Serjeants, as to Inlisting; his false Imprisonment and Release, 1737. Vii. The Transactions of Tea-Table-Officers; how little they regard, and how frequently they break, the Articles of War. Viii. Of Military-Punishments, and the Severities inflicted upon Soldiers in the Savoy, Black-Hole, &c. IX. The Honour of the Sword; wherein is made appear that a real Gentleman Soldier, rightly educated, is the finest Gentleman in the World. The Example and Character of Prince Eugene recommended. X. Articles of War, and other valuable Papers relating to the Regulation of the Army. With the Artifices made use of to prevent the Publication of this Book. The Whole Addressed to his Majesty.
Railton, J. (John).Date: 1738- Books
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Spanish amusements: or, the adventures of that celebrated courtezan Seniora Rufina call'd, the pole-cat of Seville. Being, A Detection of the Artifices used be such of the Fair Sex, as aim more at thy Purses, than at the Hearts of their Admirers. In Six Novels. I. The Miser punished. II. The Unfortunate Rivals. III. The Beautiful Jilt. IV. The Amorous Priest. V. The Artful Lover. VI. The Religious Libertines.
Castillo Solórzano, Alonso de, 1584-1648?.Date: [1727]- Books
The sleeping hermaphrodite : waking up from a lethargic confinement / contributors, Paul B. Preciado, Juan Duque, Nicolas Lakiotakis, Sofia Grigoriadou, Denis Maksimov-Gupta.
Date: 2022- Pictures
The vexatious litigant dies: the monster Litigation receives his soul, while Evil Conscience and Poverty dig his grave from which hellfire billows. Engraving by H. Goltzius, 159-.
Goltzius, Hendrik, 1558-1617.Date: 1590-1599Reference: 26561i- Pictures
The crucifixion of Christ ('The Great Crucifixion'). Engraving by Agostino Carracci, 1589, after G. Robusti, il Tintoretto.
Tintoretto, 1518-1594.Date: 1589Reference: 24605i- Books
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The honest farmer. A drama, in five acts, to which are added, Vanity punished, and Blind-Man's buff. By M. Berquin, Author of the Childrens' Friend. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold.
Berquin, M. (Arnaud), 1747-1791.Date: [1798]- Pictures
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Heads of two girls of contrasting appearance. Drawing by M. Bishop, 1967.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: Aug. 67 [August 1967]Reference: 2871566iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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Saint Joseph practises carpentry assisted by the Christ Child, while Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) sews. Engraving by J. Couché, 1786, after Annibale Carracci.
Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609.Date: 1786Reference: 10434iPart of: Galerie du Palais Royal.- Pictures
A boy seated with mice; a musical stave; flowers and trees; a glaring bull; actors on a stage; faces in anguish; a tablet extensively inscribed with thoughts on life; and other subjects. Watercolour by H. Edwards, 1961.
Edwards, Hazel, active approximately 1961.Date: Aug. 61 [August 1961]Reference: 2925122iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
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The original / by the late Thomas Walker, edited and arranged under distinct heads; with additions by William A. Guy.
Walker, Thomas, 1784-1836.Date: 1875- Books
Pedro & me : friendship, loss, & what I learned / by Judd Winick.
Winick, JuddDate: 2012- Pictures
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Residents of Ephesus burn their books on the magic arts before Saint Paul. Engraving, 18th century, after J. Thornhill.
Thornhill, James, Sir, 1675 or 1676-1734.Reference: 24888i- Pictures
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John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I. Oil painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni.
Glindoni, Henry Gillard, 1852-1913.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 47369i- Books
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The anglers sure guide: or, angling improved, and methodically digested; Shewing, I. When, and how to gather and provide the best Materials for Fishing Tackle. II. The most proper Baits to delude and take all sorts of Fresh-Water-Fish. III. How to make, order, preserve and use such Tackie and Baits. IV. The Names, Nature, &c. and Medicinal Vertues of those Fish. V. Their Haunts, Spawning-Times and Season. VI. The worst and best Seasons and Times to angle for them. Vii. The best and aptest ways of taking them by Angling, &c. Viii. The various and choicest ways of dressing 'em. IX. How to make, store, order and preserve Fish-Ponds, Stews, and Fish. X. Wherein the Angler is punishable by Law, if he invade another's Right by Angling. XI. How the Angler may lawfully defend himself, if wrongfully disturbed in his Angling. XII. Some Presidents of Licenses to angle in another's Fishery. Together with many other useful and pleasant Varieties, suitable to the Recreation of Angling. Adorned with copper cuts. By R. H. Esq; near 40 Years a Practitioner in this Art.
R. H. (Robert Howlett).Date: 1706- Books
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An entire new magazine. On Friday, February 1, 1793, will be Published, (price only Sixpence) Elegantly Printed on a Superfine Paper, and Embellished with a most Beautiful Frontispiece, finely Engraved by a Capital Artist, The Wonderful Magazine, and Marvellous Chronicle of extraordinary productions and events In Nature and Art: Consisting Entirely of Matters which come under the Denominations of Miraculous! Queer! Odd! Strange! Supernatural! Whimsical! Absurd! Out of the way! and Unaccountable! Including Many surprising Escapes from Death and Dangers, strange Discoveries of long-concealed Murders, and a vast Variety of other Matters equally curious and surprizing. The Whole collected from the Writings of the most approved Historians, Travellers, Philosophers, and Physicians, of all Ages and Countries. No. 1, for January, 1793. (to be continued Monthly.) Containing (among a great Variety of other Particulars equally marvellous and curious) the following most extraordinary Articles. A wonderful Deliverance-Instances of Persons who have changed their Sex-The Bloody Bell, an extraordinary Execution-The Gammon of Bacon-The Birth of a Devil-The English Irishman-The Female Sleep Walker-The Drumming Well-A Woman with Child 27 Years-A Camp set on Fire hy Sparrows-A surprising Discovery of Murder-The Original of Peeping Tom of Coventry-Surprizing Examples of Instinct in Animals-A monstrous Serpent-The Sea punished by Command of Xerxes, the Persian King-Remarkable Anecdote relating to Death-The Bearded Woman-The Stone Eater-An Unaccountable Transformation of a Cheshire Cheese-The Grateful Lion-The Law of Cuckoldom in Scotland-Extracts from Baron Munchausea's Romantic Travels-Whimsical Anecdote of a Drunken Man-A most Extraordinary Event-A Lady burnt to Ashes by a Fire kindled in her own Body. - &c. &c. &c. With many other astonishing Relations too numerous to be mentioned in this Hand-Bill.
Date: 1793- Books
Criminal man / Cesare Lombroso ; translated and with a new introduction by Mary Gibson and Nicole Hahn Rafter, with translation assistance from Mark Seymour.
Lombroso, Cesare, 1835-1909.Date: 2006- Pictures
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The British Museum: working-class people attending a guided tour and looking at exhibits of English history in glass cases and on the walls. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1843.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1843]Reference: 32525i- Videos
Michel Foucault : beyond good and evil.
Date: 1993- Books
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Histories, novels, and translations / written by the most ingenious Mrs. Behn ; the second volume, the greatest part never before printed.
Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689Date: M.DCC [1700]- Audio
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Threads & yarns. Lillian Shillingford.
Date: 2011- Pictures
Chinese historical and mythological characters. Album of drawings by a Chinese artist.
Reference: 580456i- Pictures
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The South Sea Scheme: speculators ruined by the collapse of the South Sea Company. Engraving by W. Hogarth after himself, 1721.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1721Reference: 579424i- Pictures
Clerkenwell House of Correction, London: top, the oakum-shed and bottom, the needle-room. Wood engravings after M. Fitzgerald, 1874.
Fitzgerald, Michael, active 1871-1891.Date: 1874Reference: 585000i