Images

A 19th-century painting by Felix Parra (1845-1919) of the Dominican friar Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484-1566) who sought to end the abuses of indigenous peoples going on in the New World.

Alfred Dreyfus on Devil's Island in 1898, stereoscopy by F. Hamel, Altona-Hamburg.

Law of Separation of Churches and the State, 1905. National Archives of France.

J'Accuse, open letter about the Dreyfus Affair by Émile Zola, published in L'Aurore, 13 January 1898.

Alfred Dreyfus stripped of his rank, illustration published in the Petit Journal, 13 January 1895. National Library of France, Paris.

A map illustrating the establishment of the pilgrimage ('pilgrim' comes from the Latin word peregrinus - a stranger, someone on a journey) to holy places after Roman Emperor Constantine’s conversion to Christianity in 313 CE. The idea of...

Council of Trent (1545-1563), fresco by Pasquale Cati, 1588. Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere.

A 16th-century portrait of the Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas (1484-1566) who wrote a graphic description of the abuses of indigenous peoples going on in the New World in his A Very Brief Recital of the Destruction of the Indies in...

An illustration from the 16th century Codex Kingsborough showing the abuses of the encomienda forced labour system in the Viceroyalty of New Spain. (British Museum, London)

An illustration showing the torture of indigenous American peoples by Spanish conquistadors. From the 1552 edition of A Very Brief Recital of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolomé de las Casas which was a graphic indictment of the exploitation...