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Wax Museums Cement Grim Memories
- Sarah recounts visiting the King's Cross Wax Museum in Sydney as a tween and remembering the medieval torture exhibit vividly.
- That memory illustrates how wax museums shape lasting, sensational images of history.
Medieval Period Is A Thousand-Year Stretch
- The 'Middle Ages' spans about a thousand years and contains vast regional differences rather than a single monolithic era.
- Lumping medieval history into one stereotype misleads our understanding of past societies.
Iron Maiden Is A Later Invention
- The iron maiden story first appears in the late 1700s and has no authenticated medieval examples.
- Many 'medieval' torture devices are Victorian inventions or later fabrications for spectacle.
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