Violence
Blood on the Ravenstone: Judicial Torture, Penal Violence, and Capital Punishment in Early Modern Europe
This week we’re delving into penal violence in early modern Europe. For most people, we suspect, their familiarity with torture, corporal punishment, and execution for capital crime is confined to some gnarly anecdotes, perhaps a few graphic movie scenes, a little Monty Python, and, if you’re cool like us, your Read more…