
Medieval Torture with Dana Schwartz
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The End of the Mediaeval Period
i don't want to pretend that people in the mediaeval age were less brutal than us, because they were herrifically tlike read an account of christopher columbus doing anything. I feel like the fact that it sounds like it has the word evil in it has probably not done it any favorsa ha, ha. But people are awful, but people to day are also awful. The more evil pun intended you make mediaeval torture devices, the less you have to reckon with the fact that even people doing the executions, or the boring torture that did exist, still thought they were the good guys, right? They didn't have to do the arwe the batdies
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