Flagellation & the flagellants : a history of the rod in all countries from the earliest period to the present time / by Wm. M. Cooper.

  • James Glass Bertram
Date:
[1910?]
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Credit: Flagellation & the flagellants : a history of the rod in all countries from the earliest period to the present time / by Wm. M. Cooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    PRELIMINARY. HE writer, now that his work is concludtd, is X not inclined to dwell on the difficulties under which he laboured in the preparation of the present volume. Although this History of the Rod may be regarded as a compilation, still the task required more than an ordinary expenditure of time and trouble. The facts and anecdotes brought together in the fol- lowing pages were found to be very widely scattered, and frequently accompanied by details which on no possible pretence could now be openly published— Indeed, it would have been simply impossible to have given the chronicle of Conventual and Monastic Dis- cipline entire : the coarseness, the brutality, the re- fined cruelty often exercised, were of a character so objectionable, that no good end could have been ac- complished by giving every circumstance and every detail narrated in these old records. The writer's aim has been to lay before the student interested in the progress of civilisation as full an account of the use of the Rod as propriety on the one hand and as history on the other demanded. No apology is oftered for what is recorded in this book: it was neither compiled for the prurient nor the prudish, the writer's sole aim being to give (to the best of his ability) a true History of the Rod as an instrument for correctional purposes in the Church, the State, and the Family. Est el fiddi tula silailio Merces. —IIOR. VV. M. Q
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