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Two engravings depicting monks punished for sodomy, 1578. Taken from a collection of Geschichtsblätter, Leaves of History.
1. Wie zween munch in einer predig gefangen zu Brug im Flandern haben sodomitigische gottlosigkeit des Closters, der Obrigkheitt angegeben. With caption text in German doggerel (14 lines) under the picture. Dated Anno Dni MDLXXVIII 18 Meij. Oblong 210 x 271 mm.
Literally: ?How two monks caught in a sermon in Brugge in Flanders have reported the sodomite godlessness of the monastery to the authorities?. Dramatical portrayal of the extradition of at least a dozen monks, firmly escorted by an extensive contingent of soldiers. No. 17 of the Geschichtsblätter by Frans Hogenberg (c. 1535-1590), the foremost topographical engraver of his day.
2. Execution uber sodomitigsche Buben binnen der Statt Gendt. With caption text in German doggerel (10 lines) under the picture. Dated Anno Dni MDLXXVIII XXVIII Junij. Oblong 207 x 279 mm.
* Dramatical depiction of the arrest and execution of monks at a monastery in Ghent (June 28, 1578): Five monks are burned at the stake and three others flogged in front of a crowd. The four mendicant religious orders were expelled from town, the rhyme says. Two of the very earliest representations of punishing homosexual acts. From the collection of Haarlem historian and antiquarian A.G. van der Steur, with his pencilled numbers.
Literally: ?How two monks caught in a sermon in Brugge in Flanders have reported the sodomite godlessness of the monastery to the authorities?. Dramatical portrayal of the extradition of at least a dozen monks, firmly escorted by an extensive contingent of soldiers. No. 17 of the Geschichtsblätter by Frans Hogenberg (c. 1535-1590), the foremost topographical engraver of his day.
2. Execution uber sodomitigsche Buben binnen der Statt Gendt. With caption text in German doggerel (10 lines) under the picture. Dated Anno Dni MDLXXVIII XXVIII Junij. Oblong 207 x 279 mm.
* Dramatical depiction of the arrest and execution of monks at a monastery in Ghent (June 28, 1578): Five monks are burned at the stake and three others flogged in front of a crowd. The four mendicant religious orders were expelled from town, the rhyme says. Two of the very earliest representations of punishing homosexual acts. From the collection of Haarlem historian and antiquarian A.G. van der Steur, with his pencilled numbers.