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...religion. Since Calvinist theology prohibited the use of images in churches and other places of worship – though not in secular buildings such as homes or civic buildings – this had a significant impact on the forms of art that were produced. By contrast with Rome, and indeed most other European centres of art at the time, where artists could hope to gain substantial...

...religion (see Section 2) as a sign that he was divinely sanctioned to rule, but the emperor also surrounded himself with gods of his own making. In this respect he is perhaps most famous for how he treated Antinous after his death. Antinous was a young man, a great favourite and a probable homosexual partner of Hadrian, who drowned in the Nile in mysterious circumstances...

...religion and Irish insanity’ in J. Melling and B. Forsythe (eds) Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800–1914: A Social History of Madness in Comparative Perspective, London: Routledge, pp.223–42. Walton, J.K. (1981) ‘The treatment of pauper lunatics in Victorian England: the case of Lancaster Asylum, 1816–1870’ in A.T. Scull (ed.) Madhouses, Mad-Doctors and...