You've Been Lied To About Medieval Torture

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The Middle Ages is often thought of as the era of cruel and unusual punishment with overly creative torture devices like iron maidens and spiked wheels. But many of these artifacts aren't what you think, or are even real at all. Come learn with me! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Care for Gaza: https://x.com/careforgaza?lang=en Donate to the PCRF: https://www.pcrf.net/ Buy my graphic novel, Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun: https://www.kazrowe.com/comics/cahun https://shop.getty.edu/products/liberated-the-radical-art-and-life-of-claude-cahun-978-1947440074 Find me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KazRowe I'm on TikTok @ kazrowe Find me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/kaz.rowe Buy my comics: https://gumroad.com/kazrowe Send me a ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/A347K4X Read my webcomic: https://www.cunningfire.com/ Catch it on Tapas: https://tapas.io/series/cunning-fire Line Webtoons: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/cunning-fire/list?title_no=59016 Captioning by Transcription, Ho! Captioning Services Filmed using: Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4k– https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicpocketcinemacamera Blackmagic Video Assist 5” HDR – https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicvideoassist Olympus M. Zuiko ED 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro– https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1003635-REG/olympus_v314060bu000_m_zuiko_digital_ed.html Samsung Portable SSD T5 - 2Tb– https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/portable-solid-state-drives/portable-ssd-t5-2tb-mu-pa2t0b-am/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sources Destruction of the Flesh – Salvation of the Spirit: the Paradoxes of Torture in Medieval Christian Society By Edward Peters in The Devil, Heresy and Witchcraft in the Middle Ages Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature: Negotiations of National Identity by Larissa Tracy Aquinas on Torture by Jordan Bishop ’Lete me suffre’: Reading the Torture of St Margaret of Antioch in Late Medieval England by Katherine J. Lewis The ‘pear of anguish’: Truth, torture and dark medievalism by Chris Bishop Torture: European Instruments of Torture and Capital Punishment from the Middle Ages to Present by Gavin Yamey The History of Torture by Daniel P. Mannix The Modulated Scream: Pain in Late Medieval Culture by Esther Cohen A History of Torture in Britain by Simon Webb Why Medieval Torture Devices are Not Medieval by Peter Konieczny for Medievalists https://www.medievalists.net/2023/12/medieval-torture-devices/ Crime and Punishment in Germany: As Illustrated by the Nuremberg Malefactors' Books by Theodor Hampe, William Smith The Cosmopolitan, Volume 18, 1895, “Salvation Via the Rack” by Julian Hawthorne, p. 482 Life in Medieval Europe: Fact and Fiction by Danièle Cybulskie Giving “the Middle Ages” a Bad Name by Madeline H. Calviness