Essay On Medieval Torture

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Medieval torture devices

The period known as middle ages stands out as one of the most violent wars in

history. It lasting a solid 1,000 years, from the 5th century to the 15th, was a time of

lots of inequality and brutality in most of Europe. What really puts the apart is

there violent ways of brutal torture methods. There were many ways of brutal

torture in Europe. What really set this time apart is the inventiveness that gave

rise to a plethora of torture methods. There were many grounds for the torture

during the middle ages, religious fervor and criminal punishment come to mind,

but why would someone invent a device that would disable somebody so bad, but

wouldn’t kill them.

There were a lot of inventive was of brutally hurting people in

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various weights were attached to his or her feet, to increase the agony and

prevent the victim from falling off. According the historical sources it was known

to rip through the whole human body when enough weight was added to it. This

devices was also used during the civil war by union soldiers.

Another brutal torture device that was used during the middle ages was call THE

RACK. Commonly consider the most brutal was of torture, the rack consisted of

large wooden rectangular frames, with a roller at both ends. The victim was

placed at the end of the frame his ankle were fastened to one roller and the wrist

to the other roller.as the interrogation process progressed, a handle attached to

the top roller was used to gradually stretch the limbs away from the victim, it

would slowly rip the arms and legs off often making loud popping sounds
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snapping muscle and ligaments. Other prisoners seeing someone be on the rack

would make them make confessions.

The last torture device was called the Breast Ripper. This was a torture