A typically frenzied Renaissance depiction of a birching – Hans Holbein’s image of the ‘tyranny of schoolmasters’, from his illustrations for Erasmus’ Praise of Folly, c.1515. Photo courtesy University of Leicester

November 20, 2013 By

A typically frenzied Renaissance depiction of a birching - Hans Holbein's image of the 'tyranny of schoolmasters', from his illustrations for Erasmus' Praise of Folly, c.1515. Photo courtesy University of Leicester

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