
Medieval Torture with Dana Schwartz
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What Is the Mediaeval Period?
The mediaeval period is from about 476 a d which was the fall of rome. Think of it from the mid four hundreds to the mid 14 hundred, like a good thousand years. It'slie to talk about 20 twentieths, like deem arch of 20 20 or december. But for context, the brazen bull is written about in like the year 200 a d. A christian apologist writes about it in a letter to the martyrs. There are two sources ribing how a roman general named marcus atilius regolus was tortured by the carthaginians in 250 b c. They're hearing these stories 500 years to people in ye 200
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