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Discipline In The 1300s

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In the 1300s, the main punishment used against people who went against the rules made by the government was the method of Quartering and drawing, it is where a person is tied to a horse and ripped apart. Punishments like this were used to control the population of a specific region through fear. The tactics they used were a part of discipline. But what is discipline? Discipline is one of the major domains of power, and is defined as the practice of training people to obey certain rules or a code of behavior, created by institutions, by using punishment to reform disobedient behavior in order to exert power over a population and control them. Discipline is created in three major steps, it creates its own space, assumes a personality, and adopts

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