History of flagellation and spanking

Inneres einer Schule (interior of a school), German Renaissance woodcut.

For a brief overview of the history of flagellation and spanking in selected periods, see:

• Ancient Egypt
• Antiquity
  • Ancient Greece, Sparta
  • Ancient Rome
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Modernity
  • Victorian era
  • Edwardian era
  • 20th century
  • 21st century

Books and websites

There are some books and websites with non-fiction information material on the history of spanking/whipping/corporal punishment:

Books:

• Historia flagellantium (1700) - English version under the titles The History of the Flagellants (1777) and Memorials of Human Superstition (1784)
• Flagellation and the Flagellants (1870) - republished under the titles The History of the Rod and History of Flagellation Among Different Nations
• Der Flagellantismus im Altertum (1913)
• The History of Corporal Punishment (1950)
• Chastisement Across the Ages (1956)
• Thy Rod and Staff (1995)
• Lob der Peitsche: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Erregung (In Praise of the Whip : A Cultural History of Arousal, 2001/2007)

Websites:

• World Corporal Punishment Research

Images

For images on this topic, see

• historic spanking art
• School corporal punishment (antiquity-1699)
• School corporal punishment (1700-1899)
• School corporal punishment (1900-today)

See also

• Empire
• The History of spanking in film

External Links

• The Evolution of Childrearing "psychohistory" by Lloyd deMause

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