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Flogging others : corporal punishment and cultural identity from antiquity to the present / G. Geltner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Geltner, G. (Guy), 1974- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Corporal punishment--History.
- Corporal punishment.
- Flagellation--History.
- Flagellation.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 112 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2014].
- Contents:
- 1 Historical and Anthropological Approaches 21
- Problems of Definition 21
- Problems of Interpretation 25
- 2 Punishing Bodies 29
- Antiquity 30
- Later Antiquity: Greece, Rome, and the Sassanian Empire 40
- Religion and Corporal Punishment 47
- Judaism 49
- Islam 52
- Christianity 57
- Medieval and Early Modern Europe 62
- Modernity to the Present 68.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789089647863
- 9089647864
- OCLC:
- 891613679
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