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Turning the Screw
A focus on those faiths seen as a threat to the state.
A plain board, to be found on a 17th-Century Japanese roadside, offers generous rewards to anyone who informs on Christians. At almost exactly the same time a print from France depicts the officially sanctioned destruction of a Huguenot Church just a few miles east of Paris.
Photograph (c) The Trustees of the British Museum.
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