Medieval Torture with Dana Schwartz
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Did Sibinski Just Make It Up?
Historians have spent their lifetimes trying to refute that people were just throwing each other in iron maidens. But it's so funny that we're talking about a sanctualian idea going viral, and same way it does now. Possibly, maybe he was confused, because there was a thing called the coat of shame that was basically punishment for poachers and sex workers in the thirteenth century. As far as we have evidence of torture, it's more akin to that sort of thing,. like pillories, you know, wher you l s your head through. Yet, i feel like we've been really big on that in a way that these over the top stories hide a
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