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Still image18 Personnes brulées à Saltzbourg, A. 1528
Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712An engraving depicting the burning of eighteen Anabaptists. The image shows the victims bound to burning stakes and praying as a pair of men stoke the fires.Subject - Time PeriodCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESAn engraving depicting the burning of eighteen Anabaptists. The image shows the victims bound to burning stakes and praying as a pair of men stoke the fires. -
Still image180 Persones brulées sous le nom d'Albigois comme des héretiques, A. 1210
Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712An engraving depicting the burning of 180 people from the Cathar sect who had been labeled heretics by the Pope. The image shows a massive bonfire with numerous people being thrown onto it while a crowd watches.Subject - Time PeriodCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESAn engraving depicting the burning of 180 people from the Cathar sect who had been labeled heretics by the Pope. The image shows a massive bonfire with numerous people being thrown onto it while a crowd watches. -
Still image224 Vaudois brulez prés de Thoulouse, A. 1243
Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712An engraving depicting the burning of 224 Waldensians outside of Toulouse. The image shows a large number of stakes with people tied to them being set ablaze as a crowd watches.Subject - Time PeriodCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESAn engraving depicting the burning of 224 Waldensians outside of Toulouse. The image shows a large number of stakes with people tied to them being set ablaze as a crowd watches. -
Still imageA Gathering of Greco-Roman Scholars
A depiction of seven notable scholars (real and mythological) from ancient Greece and Rome, including (clockwise from the bottom left): Xenokrates (ΞΕΝΟΚΡΑΤΗς), Pamphilos (ΠΑΜΦΙΛΟς), Machaon (ΜΑΧΑωΝ), Cheiron (ΧΕΙΡωΝ), Nigros or Niger (ΝΙΓΡΟς), [H]erakleides (ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΔΗς), and Mantias (ΜΑΝΤΙΑς).Subject - Time PeriodDate Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESA depiction of seven notable scholars (real and mythological) from ancient Greece and Rome, including (clockwise from the bottom left): Xenokrates (ΞΕΝΟΚΡΑΤΗς), Pamphilos (ΠΑΜΦΙΛΟς), Machaon (ΜΑΧΑωΝ), Cheiron (ΧΕΙΡωΝ), Nigros or Niger (ΝΙΓΡΟς), [H]erakleides (ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΔΗς), and Mantias (ΜΑΝΤΙΑς). -
TextA Second Century- Liberty Hill Methodist Church, Hemp ,Georgia
A brief history of the Liberty Hill Methodist Church including details of the church's founding family, the Rectors, other important families within the church, the construction of church buildings, and church meetings.Subject - Time PeriodDate CreatedCollectionsCopyrightCOPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATEDA brief history of the Liberty Hill Methodist Church including details of the church's founding family, the Rectors, other important families within the church, the construction of church buildings, and church meetings. -
TextA discourse concerning prodigie : wherein the vanity of presages by them is reprehended, and their true and proper ends asserted and vindicated
Spencer, John, 1630-1693Summary: A repudiation of the understanding of "prodigies," monstrous births in humans or animals, as signs from God.Subject - Time PeriodDate Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: A repudiation of the understanding of "prodigies," monstrous births in humans or animals, as signs from God. -
TextA form, or order of thanksgiving and prayer : to be used ... in behalf of the King, the Queen and the royal family, upon the occasion of the Queen's being with child.
Church of EnglandSummary: A sermon preached in honor of the announcement of the queen's pregnancy.Subject - Time PeriodDate Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: A sermon preached in honor of the announcement of the queen's pregnancy. -
TextA sermon preached before the King at Chester : on August xxviii, 1687. Being the feast of S. Augustin ...
Sabran, Lewis, 1652-1732Summary: A sermon preached for the Feast of St. Augustine.Subject - Time PeriodDate Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: A sermon preached for the Feast of St. Augustine. -
TextA sermon preached in His Majesties chapel at Whitehall, on the eighth of February 1684/5 : Being the Sunday after the death of His late Sacred Majesty King Charles the Second of blessed memory
Horne, ThomasSummary: A sermon preached in honor of Charles II, King of England, following his death.Subject - Time PeriodDate Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: A sermon preached in honor of Charles II, King of England, following his death. -
TextA sermon preached in His Majesty's Chapel-Royal at White-Hall, upon the 26th day of July, 1685 : being the day of publick thanksgiving to Almighty God for His Majesty's late victory over the rebels
Hesketh, Henry, 1637?-1710Summary: A sermon preached in honor of the king's victory over rebel forces.Subject - Time PeriodDate Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: A sermon preached in honor of the king's victory over rebel forces. -
TextA sermon, on gods governing the world; : preached in London in ... 1682
Slater, Samuel, -1704Summary:Subject - Time PeriodCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: -
TextA short discourse concerning the reading His Majesties late declaration in the churches
Croft, Herbert, 1603-1691Summary: A justification for reading James II's declaration of indulgence in spite of the Archbishop of Canterbury's objections.Subject - Time PeriodDate Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: A justification for reading James II's declaration of indulgence in spite of the Archbishop of Canterbury's objections. -
TextA true account and declaration of the horrid conspiracy against the late king, His present Majesty, and the government
Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713Summary: An account of the Rye House Plot, a conspiracy against the British monarchy.Subject - Time PeriodDate Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: An account of the Rye House Plot, a conspiracy against the British monarchy. -
Still imageAguglia del Popolo, Aguglia di San. Pietro, Santi Apostoli, et C. Traj[an]
A pair of engravings depicting four obelisks (Vatican Obelisk, Lateran Obelisk, Flaminio Obelisk, and the Esquiline Obelisk), the Santi Apostoli, and Trajan's Column. All of these were part of Pope Sixtus V's urban reform program.Subject - Time PeriodDate Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESA pair of engravings depicting four obelisks (Vatican Obelisk, Lateran Obelisk, Flaminio Obelisk, and the Esquiline Obelisk), the Santi Apostoli, and Trajan's Column. All of these were part of Pope Sixtus V's urban reform program. -
Still imageAlcinde Slays the Crocodile of Damietta
Chauveau, François, 1613-1676An engraving depicting a scene from the third book of the epic poem, Saint Louys, in which Alcinde (center left, by the crocodile's tail, holding a bow), killed a large crocodile which was the guardian deity of the city of Damietta before the arrival of Saint Louis and the crusaders.Subject - Time PeriodDate Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESAn engraving depicting a scene from the third book of the epic poem, Saint Louys, in which Alcinde (center left, by the crocodile's tail, holding a bow), killed a large crocodile which was the guardian deity of the city of Damietta before the arrival of Saint Louis and the crusaders. -
Still imageAlgerius, Etudiant de Padoue, brulé à Rome, A. 1557
Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712An engraving depicting the execution of Algerius, a student from Padua. The image shows Algerius being drenched in boiling oil as he stands before a prepared stake and pyre while a monk attempts to convince him to repent.Subject - Time PeriodCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESAn engraving depicting the execution of Algerius, a student from Padua. The image shows Algerius being drenched in boiling oil as he stands before a prepared stake and pyre while a monk attempts to convince him to repent. -
Still imageAlphonse de Poitiers Rescues Lisamante
Chauveau, François, 1613-1676An engraving depicting a scene from the second book of the epic poem, Saint Louys, in which Alphonse de Pointiers, after having been shipwecked near Acre, rescues the young woman, Lisamante, from panthers.Subject - Time PeriodDate Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESAn engraving depicting a scene from the second book of the epic poem, Saint Louys, in which Alphonse de Pointiers, after having been shipwecked near Acre, rescues the young woman, Lisamante, from panthers. -
Still imageAltar of All Saints
An engraving depicting the Altar of All Saints which contains minor relics of various saints.Subject - Time PeriodDate Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESAn engraving depicting the Altar of All Saints which contains minor relics of various saints. -
Still imageAlégonde Interprets the Destruction of the Poisoned Armor
Chauveau, François, 1613-1676An engraving depicting a scene from the tenth book of the epic poem, Saint Louys, in which, following the destruction of the poisoned armor gifted to Saint Louis by the Sultan's representatives, the hermit and widow of Aymon de Bourbon, Alégonde, is consulted to interpret the sign, and informs the prelates that only a member of the House of Bourbon can battle the dragon blocking the crusaders path.Subject - Time PeriodDate Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESAn engraving depicting a scene from the tenth book of the epic poem, Saint Louys, in which, following the destruction of the poisoned armor gifted to Saint Louis by the Sultan's representatives, the hermit and widow of Aymon de Bourbon, Alégonde, is consulted to interpret the sign, and informs the prelates that only a member of the House of Bourbon can battle the dragon blocking the crusaders path. -
TextAn Account of the reasons of the nobility and gentry's invitation of His Highness the Prince of Orange into England : being a memorial from the English Protestants concerning their grievances : with a large account of the birth of the Prince of Wales
Summary: An appeal by Protestants to William III and Mary II to recognize the grievances of Protestants against Catholicism.Subject - Time PeriodDate Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: An appeal by Protestants to William III and Mary II to recognize the grievances of Protestants against Catholicism. -
TextAn alarm to unconverted sinners, in a serious treatise, shewing ... whereunto is annexed, Divers practical cases of conscience judiciously resolved
Alleine, Joseph, 1634-1668Summary: A treatise explaining what the process of conversion is, describing its necessity, and how to identify those who may be in need of conversion.Subject - Time PeriodDate Issued or PublishedCopyrightSummary: A treatise explaining what the process of conversion is, describing its necessity, and how to identify those who may be in need of conversion.