1.The upper texts often became a confusing mixture of sacred and secular—and even anticlerical—poems, indicating its intended performance in courtly as well as ecclesiastical settings.
1.272) La Guillotine ... was bowed down to and believed in where the Cross was denied: The French Revolution was deeply anticlerical in ideology, methods, and symbols.
2.Following his footsteps like a shadow is Markel, the artisan who has become a revolutionist through humiliation and the desire for revenge; a passionate worshipper of science, which he cannot comprehend; a fanatical anticlerical and an ascetic.