Suffering in the Seventeenth Century
During the earlier part of the seventeenth century, religious flagellation still survived, even in Protestant England. John Gee (a Church of England clergyman) recounts how, during the reign of James I, Catholic flagellants marched in procession to Tyburn, and partly endorses the practice, declaring himself ‘no enemy vnto austerity of life, and tam…
John Yamamoto-Wilson
Pain, pleasure and perversity: Blogging on the book.
Early modern suffering.
