Torture Techniques Used In Medieval Times

Rat torture was one of the most vile of the torture methods used by the Roman Catholic Church. The punisher would force the victim on their back and restrain them. Then the inquisitor placed a rat onto the stomach of the accused (“Medieval Torture” 29). A heated plate then moved towards the rat trapping it onto the victim’s stomach. This caused the rat to become frantic and search for a way out. For the rodent, the only possible exit was through the victim’s stomach. The rat then chewed and dug its way to safety causing the victim to be in a complete state of agony and torture. This method usually resulted in death if not stopped within a few minutes (“Medieval Torture” 29). The punishment method of pressing also focusing on the torso. For

According to Joycelyn M. Pollock, torture is defined as the deliberate infliction of violence and, through violence, severe mental and/or physical suffering upon individuals. Torture, according to Christopher Tindale as quoted in Torture and the Ticking bomb by Bob Brecher,

In the roman times crucifixion was the punishments. Nails are driven through the wrists and ankles, you are then left to die in agony. Death takes hours and hours. Another punishment was being fed to lions in the morning, but in the afternoon it was man against man. The fighters had nothing to protect them from the animal - no helmets or shields. The crowd would shout KILL HIM, FLOG HIM AND BURN HIM.

Medieval torture wasn’t just purely for the act of inflicting pain through pleasure, but it was also used for interrogation purposes, like to make people extract information and force confessions. It was sanctioned only if there was already half-proof against the inculpated (“medievalwarefare.info, 2017). The people accused of committing a crime who were already sentenced to death, would face torturous consequences to coerce them to disclose the designations of other accomplices. Some inculpable men would take in the suffering of torture without making any avowal, causing the judge to assume they were guilty and that they have transgressed the law. As well as this, some torture victims were subdued by pain, making them acknowledge himself guilty even though he may be innocent. This wasn’t all done for just the act of sadism, but to help create

Medieval Times was a very dark and evil place. They tortured people for saying a little white lie. Depending on how bad what they did, the more and worse the punishment is. During this time period, many people faced gruesome and violent punishments used with crazy, out of the mind torture weapons.

Punishment of guillotine was called barbaric and a punishment for the worst of the worst. Other punishments throughout the world include:

    Many would say being Hanged, Drawn, and Quartered was one of the worst methods of torture. This was a commonly used method of torture in medieval England. It was often saved for prisoners convicted of high treason. First, the casualty was hanged by the neck and just before the minute he would die, he was taken to a wooden edge, where he was then laid and emasculated. At long last, both of his arms and legs were tied with ropes to four different stallions who were whipped to jerk in four different directions, eventually literally tearing the victim into pieces. The mangled limbs were then displayed over the town for all to see. This method was never used on women. As a matter of decency, women would simply be burned at the stake.

Beaten, broken, burned, bruised, tortured. Torture is defined as a “deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical and mental suffering by one or more persons acting alone or on the orders of an authority to force another person to yield information, make a confession, etc” (Torture). Throughout history, torture has been used for extreme punishment or unreasonably hateful oppression but more recently torture has been used to force the weaker willed into talking. Torture is an extraneous way to get any information or a needed confession from a suspect and it has very terrible effects on those who do the torturing and those who have suffered/are suffering through tortured. Even

Everything is pitch black. I am pressed up hard against my peers in this moving enclosure and have been for what feels like a lifetime. I can hardly breathe and the heat is almost unbearable. The stench of death is penetrating, filling me entirely. Suddenly, light pours from outside blinding me, I am shoved and kicked by men, who maneuver me out of my previous prison. I realise that I am free, and begin to run forward, only to collapse as my legs and lungs cannot cope after standing for so long. I am herded into yet another dark and crowded enclosure with my peers, my heart begins to race with panic, and I try to resist, squealing and thrashing around. The cruel men from earlier reappear and poke me with what I assume is a stick, but it sends shockwaves through me, rendering me unable to move. Little did I know that that would be the last time I would move. Little did I know that my death could contribute to the destruction of a planet. You are probably thinking, ‘What is this? Some cruel form of torture in a medieval prison?’ I hate to tell you, no, it is not.

The Gelatin or its smaller brother the Halifax is what you now see in movies a lot. Unlike the movies most of the time it was not a clean cut on the first time, most of the time it took more than one try to completely cut the head off. It would hit the back of the neck and bounce off. They would do this till the head was completely off. To me the most interesting way to torture someone was with animals this was used with rats and houses most commonly. The rat would be placed into a metal bucket and the bucket would slowly be heated up till the rat had no way out. The rat would start to eat though the accused body to get away from the heat . the person would be keep alive till the rat eat all the way through. The horses would be tied to both the arms and legs or just a arm and the leg. The torturer would eater slowly pull apart the accused or would let the horse take off running. They did not just use branding on the houses and cattle. They used this with a every hot or a very cold pease of iron that was words or a symbol to mark you a lot of the time this was used on their slaves to identify then if they ever ran away. This was draft down the the americas, mostly the south by rich slave owners. They sometimes they would cut a small hole to the person's gut and cut their intestines out. Then tie them to a rod and twist the rod and slowly pull the intestines out of the body. Torser is still on the books in many places around the

There are several varieties of tortures in general. Until the twentieth century, most forms of torture that were recognized as such were purely physical in nature. The breaking of bones, manipulation or mutilation of a person's body, and the application of flames or other implements of punishment were the main forms of recognized torture.

Torture has been practiced throughout history. “Torture is any act that intentionally inflicts severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, when executed to serve a stated purpose other than punishment, such as gathering intelligence information or intimidating government dissenters”(“Torture”). Many cultures throughout history, such as the Romans, Jews, Egyptians, and many more have used torture as part of their justice and law system. One of the Roman’s torturing methods was crucifixion where the victim is tied or nailed to a wooden cross and left to hang until dead; the Jews torture method was stoning where a group of people threw stones at a person until that person dies; and the Egyptians had the “Desert Sun Death” which is

To understand more of what occurred in late medieval Europe and why the use of torture was seen as necessary, especially for the crime of witchcraft, we must first analyze what we can about the standard practice when it comes to the accusation of witches during that the period. Looking back on historical events we often view the use of torture as an interrogation technique as barbaric and inhumane. Although it was indeed a gruesome act, the procedures and regulations used in those times show that torture was used with great reluctance and not without supervision, illustrating just how seriously they took an investigation that called for such practice. The letter written by Johannes Junius was written to his daughter Veronica in 1682, a time

Torture was certainly widespread across the medieval world. Its use was regulated by church and state law as a means of demonstrating guilt, of determining guilt and of exacting punishment, but its legality and application changed depending on any number of factors including country, date, church, state, ideology and political context. There was no one unified system of medieval torture: to some it was abhorrent; to some against the Church and to others it was a tool to be used by the Church. It had legal, ecclesiastical, moral and mercenary applications.

They tortured people to gain confessions. The church handled all confessions, however could not witness the bloodshed that they caused to get the accused to confess. All punishments were vary physical two of the most infamous were the strappado and aselli. The strappado, meaning pulley, was a device containing ropes to strap a person down from their arms and legs and weights were attached on the ropes. The person would be raised and their body would stretch causing mass amounts of pain and sometimes-immediate death. The aselli was a water torment. A person would lie down and be drowned rapidity until it looked like their veins would explode.