A man on horseback enters a church to discover an orgiastic sabbath. Watercolour painting.

People in Nagasaki trampling on Christian cult images. Etching, ca. 1789.

Ceres punishes Erysichthon of Thessaly with perpetual hunger. Engraving by J. Matheus, 1619.

Soldiers plundering a convent, killing and raping the men and women that resist them. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.

A withered tree bearing apples labelled with sins; representing the life of the base, 'natural' man. Etching, 1771, after J. Bakewell.

A nun, traditionally identified as Suor Maria Celeste, daughter of Galileo Galilei. Oil painting.

The exhumed corpse of the French King Henry IV standing bandaged and upright in a coffin in the vaults of the Basilica of Saint-Denis. Line engraving with etching by E. Bovinet, A. Chataigner and T.B. de Jolimont after E.H. Langlois.

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Sacrilege and redemption in Renaissance Florence : the case of Antonio Rinaldeschi / William J. Connell and Giles Constable.

Sacrilege a national sin. Being a discourse on the nature, guilt and danger of sacrilege, as it is chargeable on this nation: shewing, the necessity there is of making some better provision for the clergy in impropriated livings.

A discourse of the institution, Dignity and Immunities of the priesthood. With Examples of God's Vengeance for Sacrilege of Persons, Places and Things dedicated to his Worship. Taken from Sacred and Prophane History.

Essays Concerning I. Excommunications in times of popery. II. Canon-laws and ecclesiastical tyranny. III. Excommunications in these times. IV. The Writ de excommunicato capiendo. V. Sacrilege, consecrating churches, and baptizing bells. VI. Absolutions and excommunications, as meer politick tools, and belonging to the regale, not pontificale. VII. Probate of wills and administrations, and spiritual courts. By Edmund Hickeringill, rector of all-saints in Colchester.

A few English notes on a late sermon preached before the Sons of the Clergy, by Dr. Bisse, intended to vindicate the English reformation from the charge of sacrilege, Fraud, &c. In a letter to the Reverend Dr. ---- Dean of ----.

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Sacrilege and redemption in Renaissance Florence : the case of Antonio Rinaldeschi / William J. Connell and Giles Constable.

Sacrilege a national sin. Being a discourse on the nature, guilt and danger of sacrilege, as it is chargeable on this nation: shewing, the necessity there is of making some better provision for the clergy in impropriated livings.

A discourse of the institution, Dignity and Immunities of the priesthood. With Examples of God's Vengeance for Sacrilege of Persons, Places and Things dedicated to his Worship. Taken from Sacred and Prophane History.

A few English notes on a late sermon preached before the Sons of the Clergy, by Dr. Bisse, intended to vindicate the English reformation from the charge of sacrilege, Fraud, &c. In a letter to the Reverend Dr. ---- Dean of ----.

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Sacrilege and redemption in Renaissance Florence : the case of Antonio Rinaldeschi / William J. Connell and Giles Constable.

Sacrilege a national sin. Being a discourse on the nature, guilt and danger of sacrilege, as it is chargeable on this nation: shewing, the necessity there is of making some better provision for the clergy in impropriated livings.

A discourse of the institution, Dignity and Immunities of the priesthood. With Examples of God's Vengeance for Sacrilege of Persons, Places and Things dedicated to his Worship. Taken from Sacred and Prophane History.

A few English notes on a late sermon preached before the Sons of the Clergy, by Dr. Bisse, intended to vindicate the English reformation from the charge of sacrilege, Fraud, &c. In a letter to the Reverend Dr. ---- Dean of ----.