What was torture really like in the Middle Ages? Everyone knows, or thinks they know, that torture was an integral part of medieval life, but many of our beliefs are really myths. Larissa ‘Kat’ Tracy joins Danièle to talk about iron maidens, dungeons, executions and more.
Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature: Negotiations of National Identity Heads Will Roll: Decapitation in the Medieval and Early Modern Imagination Wounds and Wound Repair in Medieval Culture Medieval and Early Modern Murder Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame .
You can visit Kat’s website Memento Medievalia: Remembering the Middle Ages
See also her piece Flaying in the Middle Ages
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What was torture really like in the Middle Ages? Everyone knows, or thinks they know, that torture was an integral part of medieval life, but many of our beliefs are really myths. Larissa ‘Kat’ Tracy joins Danièle to talk about iron maidens, dungeons, executions and more.
You can visit Kat’s website Memento Medievalia: Remembering the Middle Ages
See also her piece Flaying in the Middle Ages on Medievalists.net
You can subscribe to The Medieval Podcast via iTunes or our RSS feed – click here to listen to more episodes
You can help support this podcast and Medievalists.net on Patreon – go to https://www.patreon.com/medievalists
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