Flagellants are practitioners of a form of mortification of the flesh by whipping their skin with various instruments of penance. Many Christian confraternities...

Central Italian flagellant confraternities evolved and emerged from Central Italian confraternities that originated in the tenth century. The members of...

discipline. It is often used as a form of penance and is intended to allow the flagellant to share in the sufferings of Jesus, bringing his or her focus to God...

medieval music, the Geisslerlieder, or Flagellant songs, were the songs of the wandering bands of flagellants, who overspread Europe during two periods...

The Convent School, or Early Experiences of A Young Flagellant is a 19th-century work of sado-masochistic pornography, written under the pseudonym Rosa...

A Procession of Flagellants (Procesión de disciplinantes, or Procesión de flagelantes) is an oil-on-panel painting produced by Francisco de Goya between...

Geisslerlieder, or Flagellant songs. These monophonic Laude spirituale songs were used in the 13th and 17th century by flagellants, as recorded in the...

Exhibition of Female Flagellants is an 1830 pornographic novel published by George Cannon in London and attributed, probably falsely[citation needed]...

Bedroom 1797 Juliette 1828 The Lustful Turk 1830 Exhibition of Female Flagellants 1866 The Romance of Chastisement 1870 Venus in Furs 1873 The Romance...

prayer. In the 13th century, a group of Roman Catholics, known as the Flagellants, took self-mortification an extreme, and would travel to towns and publicly...