Still image

Torture donnée aux Vaudois avec du fer ardent dans la main, A. 1214

Inquisition gegen die Waldenser, durch gluend eisen in die händ zu geben, A. 1214
Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712

An engraving depicting the torture of Waldensians, who Pope Innocent III denounced as heretics, by pressing hot irons to their hands. The image shows a clergyman holding a burning iron above the hand of a Waldensian while a crowd watches.

License
The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e. not protected by copyright, has been produced by Pitts Theology Library.
Copyright status
NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES
yellow checkmark Free
to use
Close