Full Description
First published in 2005. The line between pain and pleasure is as thin as the tail of a whip, and this classic work is the definitive history of flagellation through the ages. As it shows, flagellation is much more than a punishment - it is also intimately tied to discipline and eroticism, has a romantic and even comic side, and has also been used for medical purposes. No one is above the bite of the birch or rod - convent nuns were chastised severely, queens have been flogged, and even favourites of the sultan have had to endure the whip in the great seraglios. The author deals in great detail with whipping in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, the favourite parts of the body for whipping, flagellation and discipline in monasteries and convents, whipping in prisons, the rod in Russia, flagellation in America, whipping in Europe and the Far East, the flogging of slaves, military flogging, school punishments and the birch in the boudoir, all enlivened with colourful anecdotes. There is a chapter on the instruments of whipping, a selection of ribald and erotic poems on whipping, a section on eccentric forms of whipping such as that practised on prostitutes, many detailed line drawings, descriptive accounts and a full index. The work shows the fundamental place whipping has always played in human history, both publicly and in private, and continues to play today.
Contents
INTRODUCTION, CHAPTER I. A Learned Controversy to begin with, CHAPTER II. A Brief Summary of another Curious Controversy, CHAPTER III. Flagellation among the Jews, CHAPTER IV. Flagellation among the Romans, &c, CHAPTER V. Flagellations in Monasteries and Convents, CHAPTER VI. Flagellation among the Carmelites, CHAPTER VII. Flagellation among the Cistercians, Trappists, and other Orders of Monks and Nuns, CHAPTER VIII. Flagellation Among The Franciscans and Similar Religious Orders, CHAPTER IX. Discipline among the Carthusians and other Orders, CHAPTER X. Flagellation among the Dominicans, and in Connection with the Inquisition, CHAPTER XI. Flagellation among the Jesuits, CHAPTER XII. The Sect of the Flagellants, CHAPTER XIII. The Flagellants (continued), CHAPTER XIV. Cornelius Hadrien and the Disciplina Gynopygica, CHAPTER XV. The celebrated Case of Father Girard and Miss Cadiere, CHAPTER XVI. Penal Flagellation, CHAPTER XVII. The Flagellation of Quakers and Political Persons, CHAPTER XVIII. Whipping of Thieves and Garrotters, CHAPTER XIX. Penal and Church Flagellation in Scotland, CHAPTER XX. Flagellation in Scotland (continued), CHAPTER XXI. Whipping in Bridewell and other Prisons, CHAPTER XXII. The Reputed Curative and Medicinal Powers of the Rod, CHAPTER XXIII. Celestial Castigation, CHAPTER XXIV. Flagellation among Eastern Nations, CHAPTER XXV. The Rod in Russia, CHAPTER XXVI. The Knout, CHAPTER XXVII. The Sad Story of the Nuns of Minsk, CHAPTER XXVIII. Flagellation in Africa, CHAPTER XXIX. Flagellation in America, CHAPTER XXX. The Flogging of Slaves, CHAPTER XXXI. Flagellation in France, CHAPTER XXXII. Flagellation in France (continued), CHAPTER XXXIII. The Rod in Germany and Holland, CHAPTER XXXIV. Military Flogging, CHAPTER XXXV. Military Punishments — The Flogging of Somerville of the Scots Greys, CHAPTER XXXVI. Flogging in the Navy, CHAPTER XXXVII. Anecdotes of Domestic Flagellation in Foreign Countries, CHAPTER XXXVIII. Anecdotes of Domestic Birch at Home, CHAPTER XXXIX. Extracts from the Diary of a Lady of Quality, CHAPTER XL. Discipline in an English Charity School a Hundred Years Ago, CHAPTER XLI. School Punishments, CHAPTER XLII. Additional Anecdotes of School Punishments, CHAPTER XLIII. On the Whipping of Young Ladies, CHAPTER XLIV. Birch according to the "Family Herald", CHAPTER XLV. "Birchin the Boudoir", CHAPTER XLVI. Instruments of Whipping, &c., CHAPTER XLVII. The Rodiad and other Poems, CHAPTER XLVIII. The Anthology of the Rod, CHAPTER XLIX. Eccentric and Miscellaneous Flagellation
