The Worst Medieval Torture Techniques Explained By Historian

[@karlsenula9495]

Lesson: know your enemy and if necessary fight until the end rather than being captured and tortured.

[@Rome.s_Greatest_Enemy]

yeah many soldiers even turn to killing themselves rather than getting captured

[@taffykins2745]

Facts.

[@GirolamoZanchi_is_cool]

And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. - John 3:16 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out. -Acts 3:19 If you’re in North America, please go check out any of the churches available to you: PCA, OPC, Rpcna/Rpc, Urcna, or a canrc church (These are conservative and actual Presbyterian churches) If you can’t find one of the conservative presby churches then, maybe a Lcms Lutheran church. If you are Scottish, I recommend the Free Church of Scotland and the APC (Different from the Church of Scotland) If you’re English I recommend the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in England & Wales and the Free Church of England (Different from the Church of England) Also online you can look up church finders for each of the groups, it will show you locations

[@GirolamoZanchi_is_cool]

@@taffykins2745🦙

[@taffykins2745]

@PeterMartyrVermigli_is_cool Is that your signature and personal guarantee? Most people don't advertise that, but whatever floats your boat. 🤷‍♂️. Go get 'em!

[@farrattalex]

Imagine you are sitting in front of the court and the judge condemns you to death by sawing. This would have completely ruined your day, presumably. Even the best-humored persons would definitely feel slightly depressed when presented with such news.

[@Trebor74]

The deterrent value was huge and there were no repeat offenders.

[@Xardueth]

Oh golly, what a downer

[@lotoreo]

I think you might be on to something here...

[@Mosteiro90]

​@robertouten and no way to save the innocent. If they are so many today, imagine then. But why would you care, right. You are not even human.

[@onepoundofcheese8356]

Slightly depressed

[@DieGoetterdaemmerung]

Fun fact: In germany the breaking wheel was called "rädern" (wheeling) and to this day if you are exhausted and all your limbs hurt from hard labour or exercise it's still common to say "ich fühle mich wie gerädert" - "I feel like I've been wheeled". Murderers and rapists were usually executed that way in germany and primarily men. The last person to be executed in this way, at least in europe, was in Prussia 1841 - a man who killed the Bishop of Ermland.

[@DawidUliczny-ro7eo]

In Polish we say "Nie zrobilbym X nawet jakby mnie kolem lamali" "I wouldn't do X even if they break my by the wheel" or if you want to call out someone's stubborness you would say something like "Nie przyzna sie do bledu nawet jakby go kolem lamali", "he wouldn't admit to mistake even if they break him by the wheel".

[@guitargas1894]

Same in Flemish (Belgium) it's called "geradbraakt" it's the torture but we also say it when extremely exhausted or have muscle pain from heavy manual work.

[@korstiaanakse1]

In Netherland we call it radbraken. And if your muscles and bones hurt from a hard day of work you say ik voel me geradbraakt.

[@anders1621]

We use the same term in Denmark. "Jeg føler mig radbrækket = I feel wheel broken" This sort of punishment has made an impact to this day...

[@hb9145]

In Norway, it's called "radbrekking" and generally means that something is destroyed, like "det gamle radbrækkede udhus" (=the old radbroken outhouse) (Alexander Kielland, 1886).

[@jonlannister345]

This is why it has commonly been better to go down fighting rather than submitting to anyone.

[@windowshasyou5561]

Agreed. If its at all possible, I'd rather die fighting than on my knees submitting.

[@REBECCA12341]

​@@windowshasyou5561who is your lord grave first question

[@REBECCA12341]

Fear Allah

[@windowshasyou5561]

@@REBECCA12341 It doesn't matter whether I have a God or not.

[@windowshasyou5561]

@@REBECCA12341 No, not interested in worshipping a pedo.

[@wsmpify]

The last Swedish capital punishment was actually done by guillotine, in 1910. It's a quite common trivia question here in Sweden but most people guess hanging or getting shot.

[@thecraftyhistorian]

It was in 1977 in France … also a common trivia question to which people often answer 18th or 19th century ! (sorry I replied that before seeing the entire video 🤣)

[@Clipgatherer]

+wsmpify. That’s right. Alfred Andersson Ander was guillotined for robbery and murder. After that, the guillotine was stored away. It was only used once.

[@jasonkinzie8835]

The guillotine was humane compared to most of the executions in the video!

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

​@@thecraftyhistorianJesus was not killed nor Jesus was crucified

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

Jesus was not killed nor Jesus was crucified

[@Patricia-zq5ug]

This is an excellent video, especially with the comedic inserts to counter the grimness of the content. Well done!

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

Drugs alcohol pork not allowed

[@ArthurVerhulst]

@@LisaHack-hq3dv Pork? That's no drug. Alcohol is.

[@JohnSchofield-j4i]

They're both haram.

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

As a child, reading a book about torture was the way I found out that language isn't always literal. When we learned about opposites in school, I remember loudly exclaiming "You can be destructive and creative at the same time." -I had yet to learn about context and situational awareness.

[@thearmchairjournalist566]

But you can be destructive and creative at the same time, many types of art use that method!

[@Raine247]

Whatever this means

[@danharris8805]

This has taught me a valuable lesson....never give up & be captured....humans are awful!

[@Mordred86]

Thought this myself. I would prefer suicide before they got me. But sadly I bet a lot of people were surprise arrested or thought some last minute hope was going to save them.

[@Nudhul]

True even today. If you're threatened and told to get into a vehicle or follow someone to an isolated place, you run away if you can or fight to your death if you must.

[@erwanquemener8856]

Well, I'm watching this while I'm having dinner, so I understand the old fellow.

[@GirolamoZanchi_is_cool]

And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. - John 3:16 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out. -Acts 3:19 If you’re in North America, please go check out any of the churches available to you: PCA, OPC, Rpcna/Rpc, Urcna, or a canrc church (These are conservative and actual Presbyterian churches) If you can’t find one of the conservative presby churches then, maybe a Lcms Lutheran church. If you are Scottish, I recommend the Free Church of Scotland and the APC (Different from the Church of Scotland) If you’re English I recommend the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in England & Wales and the Free Church of England (Different from the Church of England) Also online you can look up church finders for each of the groups, it will show you locations.

[@EmilWestrum]

Same! Watched this while enjoying a large plate of delicious nachos :p

[@adrianfuentes8423]

hahahaha same, just enjoyed some pasta aglio e olio while watching the recap

[@enricomadrigal9168]

@@adrianfuentes8423 🤌🍝

[@horseliver338]

definitely feel for the old boy

[@alaric_]

Talking about the horrible noises and suffering and screaming, imagine the people who did these things! many times the profession of executioner was inherited, meaning the son of executioner would be in effect condemned into working as the executioner even-though they were a normal person. Sawing a living person in half..? Literally incomprehensible.

[@taffykins2745]

All true. No escape from it. No wokes allowed.

[@Phukugoooglification]

@@taffykins2745 Bet you can't wait to try these techniques out once your kind make america great again.

[@taffykins2745]

@Phukugoooglification hahahaha! You're twisted man! Stay home if that's what you think -- it's your best bet! And be sure you're related to a baker or something. I wouldn't want you to get hurt. Do you really not know that's how it was? You inherited your dad's job. He he was a blacksmith, so we're you. If dad was a baker, so we're you. If you were unlucky enough to have a dad who was an executioner, so we're you -- I guess they really hated it. 😞

[@taffykins2745]

@@Phukugoooglification hahaha! You funny! It's not done that way anymore. You can be a baker if you want!!

[@dark_knight109]

Worth noting that being an executioner was generally a thankless job with low pay and it understandably tended to take a pretty grim toll on one's mental health. Unfortunately, this made things worse - it was not uncommon for executioners to drink heavily to numb themselves to what they had to do, so there were several known cases where an executioner showed up to an execution drunk and botched it (like a headsman missing their swing of the axe). Notably, this is true even today, which is why several formerly common methods of execution - like the firing squad - have largely been done away with. Simply put, prison staff didn't want to do them anymore. In an effort to assuage executioners' guilt, nearly all execution methods practice today involve multiple executioners, one of whom will always get a randomly selected "dummy" option that does not kill the condemned (for instance, in lethal injection cases all executioners press buttons to inject chemicals, one of which is either connected to a harmless substance like saline or does nothing; for firing squads, one of the guns is always armed with blanks). This is so that executioners can never be certain if they were the ones who actually did the deed or if they got the "dummy" option and therefore didn't actually kill anyone.

[@kariannecrysler640]

Thank you Joe for your service!

[@mwallace2922]

Poor Joe. 😱

[@thecraftyhistorian]

Joe deserves a raise 🤣

[@samholdsworth420]

Rip Joe

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

​@samholdsworth420 don't die as a disbeliever

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

​@@thecraftyhistorianfire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 never ends for disbelievers

[@josephcollins6033]

Hi, buddy!!! The man who inspired my mania for British history!!! Thanks for this!

[@rKAL-EL]

Man, I wouldn’t have wanted to play with this guy when we were kids. “Mom, he’s impaling and crushing the dolls again.” 😂

[@LucyWynder29er]

😂😂😂

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

​@@LucyWynder29erfear Allah unseen

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

Fear Allah

[@Bobbymaccys]

When it comes to hurting each other, us humans are really creative

[@Jenifer.flute20]

I love all the little text bubbles. “Worst day every” had me lol

[@REBECCA12341]

Jesus was not killed nor jesus was crucified

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

Drugs alcohol pork not allowed

[@philipminns3933]

@@REBECCA12341 U ok hun

[@kevinhalligan5283]

hilarious

[@bhbluebird]

When I was younger, beheading seemed savage and cruel, but then I read up on Medieval history.

[@johnslaughter5475]

As for the crushing, I had always heard it called pressing a person. This is where we get the term to "press someone for information." There was a famous occurrence of this in Colonial Massachusetts in 1692. It was Giles Corey. He was accused of witchcraft but refused to enter a plea, as you stated. So, they pressed him until he died. According to Wikipedia it took him 3 days to die. This would be primarily due to suffocation. This preserved his property for his children. His wife, Martha, was tried, convicted and hanged. It is an interesting sidenote to the Salem Witch Trials. Only those who pleaded not guilty were hanged. All who pleaded guilty, such as Tituba, were adjudged as being capable of being rehabilitated. Of course, all who pleaded, guilty or not guilty, lost their property. Contrary to what some movies have said, there were never any burnings in the colonies. It is known that some of the captives of the Native Americans were burned. BTW, you forgot St. Lawrence who was roasted to death. That definitely has to rank up there with terrible methods of execution.

[@NefariousKoel]

Giles Corey reportedly kept saying, "more weight" when they were pressing him. Until he couldn't, anyway.

[@johnslaughter5475]

@@NefariousKoel St. Lawrence is reputed to tell his torturers to turn him over, he was done on that side. I also heard of a case of impaling where the victim kept telling the executioners how to move him so the post didn't hit anything fatal on the way up.

[@serahloeffelroberts9901]

There was a major slave rebellion in 1715 in New York City which was a major center for slavery at that time. Over 200 people, black and white, were burned at the stake. This was so horrific that it never made it to our school history textbooks.

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

​@@serahloeffelroberts9901don't die as a disbeliever

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

​@@johnslaughter5475dog not allowed ect

[@RandiPoitras]

Ok, the wheel was not at all what i thought it was and now it makes sense why it never made sense lol

[@fotograf736]

Totally, just to use something close at hand, otherwise ridiculous.

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

​@@fotograf736drugs alcohol pork not allowed

[@katherinerichardson2273]

yeah I didn't know that's what you did with it either I was picture that way you spin on while someone throws darts at you

[@douggaudiosi14]

​@@LisaHack-hq3dvwtf are u talking about lady

[@sarads7877]

That’s the exact thing i thought 🤣

[@onlythistube]

And all this happened just a few generations ago... truly shocking. Even more shocking in what more of less subtle ways this atrocious pathologic behavior is still present in society. Violence has so many, too many forms...

[@IllustriousCrocoduck]

I think of that fact very often. We are surrounded by psychopaths who just have not manifested their behavior in any violent ways (yet?). Think of how crime and punishment comes up in politics and culture. People in general are very vindictive. It's all about punish, punish, punish. Causing suffering for its own sake has little deterrent or rehabilitative effect on criminals, yet that's a common theme we hear. It's all emotionally based but so far disconnected from the data.

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

Fear Allah

[@zoeziebee]

Why am I watching this before bed!? 😂

[@samholdsworth420]

Sleep tight

[@commodore_jack81]

Bro same ! 😂😂😂

[@Amatureb]

Same here 🤣

[@thefonzeful]

ikr, me too lol

[@REBECCA12341]

​@@thefonzefuldon't die as a disbeliever

[@YouOnlyIiveTwice]

It's depressing knowing just how creative humans have found ways to inflict the absolute most brutal ways to kill each other where suffering was of the highest priority for the victim

[@JohnSmith-im8qt]

First video like this I've found without awful way too loud music. Let's go!

[@TheCannabisTutor]

Fascinating, horrifying, and very well done as always. The funniest bit was 'Sawing' because I heard (as an American) "Soaring" and the CC said the same, I was thinking of being tossed off a cliff instead of dismembering lol

[@mbrackeva]

I stopped reading after "being tossed off".

[@LindaGray-o7j]

It was actually sawring you heard. English folk, for some reason, add an R after AW to words. Saw sawr. Law, lawr. Drawing, drawring. Etc etc. We Scots find this odd 😃

[@z-licious]

​@@LindaGray-o7jwe Americans find it odd as well.

[@LindaGray-o7j]

@@z-licious We was - you was - I were, are also dumb things English folk say. Example - We was stood standing outside when we sawer the lawer in their police car 😆

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

​@@LindaGray-o7jdon't die as a disbeliever

[@IrishEye]

I think as a treat you should use Joe in a video about Medieval sex, he's earned it.

[@MikeHoltackers]

Death by snu-snu!

[@pheart2381]

Yes, #freejoe!

[@thearmchairjournalist566]

#Joetoo 😂😂😂

[@neighborhoodmusicsnob5517]

I mean they already have a sex video. Not much Joe can demonstrate that the imagination can't already do with ease.

[@JohnSchofield-j4i]

@Irish Eye I'd say poor guys already f'd.

[@FSF-X]

10:53 On the first day of secondary school we were ✨ceremoniously✨ shown Margaret Clitherow’s preserved hand - still trying to ascertain what they were trying to achieve by showing that to a bunch of 11 year olds

[@Retro-Future-Land]

Wow, was this in York?

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

​@@Retro-Future-Landtattoo not allowed

[@Retro-Future-Land]

@@LisaHack-hq3dv WTF are you talking about?

[@kitharrison8799]

Nice one Matt, also enjoyed your Braveheart analysis. At least for a time 'Membering' was on the statute as part of Hanging, Drawing and Quartering. The Regicides of Charles I and the surviving Gunpowder Plotters were all relieved of their privy members, to symbolise their ill begotten issue.

[@rexwave4624]

My ancestor, Hugh Peter(s), was one of them. See Wikipedia article. Fortunately, he had use of his member earlier in his life.

[@TheScentDetective]

You're not being boiled in oil, you're being deep fried.

[@Avery-432]

While the term might be frying for food, in this case it does literally mean BOILING. The boiling point of oil is about double that of water, meaning a much more excruciating and violent death.

[@itsjustme8947]

Break out the bread crumbs!

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

​@@itsjustme8947drugs alcohol pork not allowed

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

​@@Avery-432drugs alcohol pork not allowed

[@CollegeHistorian]

As a small history channel focused on primary sources, i have to say i really enjoy this channel:)

[@DaveDexterMusic]

"I'm Matt Lewis, and today I'm going to run you through" _rude_

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

Suicide not allowed

[@amithrodrigo87]

One of the impalement drawings this showed , was from Ceylon (Sri Lanka) by Father Philippus Baldaeus (1632-1672) who worked with the Dutch East Endian Company. Sri Lanka had some of the most vicious punishments for criminals and even POWs..specially western POWs(Called 32 torture's). This was one of the main reasons Brits demanded that such harsh treatment should be stopped immediately after the 1815 highland accord. Its common to hear Sinhalese people still talking (Jokingly, well mostly Jokingly) about breaking necks, or Decapitation or Impaling someone. Another remnant of former cruelty can be found in a term akin to the mostly American saying to point out the obvious "does the bear shit in the woods" similarly sri lankans sometimes say "does a man shit after getting stepped on by an elephant" - getting trampled alive by an Elephant was another form of punishment.

[@Patricia-zq5ug]

See, I always thought "drawn" in this context meant the "drawing out" of the person's intestines. That would fit the order of the saying "hanged, drawn, and quartered," because they weren't hanged before being drawn through the street behind horses. When I was very small my parents slaughtered their own chickens, and my dad called it "drawing" the chicken when he pulled out its insides, a process which tiny me found fascinating.

[@Retro-Future-Land]

I think in some cases they did draw the guts out, but maybe more a thing with continentals than Brits? That said Guy Fawkes was drawn and 'drawn' in this way I believe.

[@charlesfaure1189]

Yep. Some historians aren't very good at history.

[@rexwave4624]

And burning the guts was also painful.

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

​@@rexwave4624don't die as a disbeliever

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

​@@charlesfaure1189 don't die as a disbeliever

[@stevefranklin9920]

Now THAT was inhumane !!! I wonder how many people still refused to enter a plea even throughout the torture they were made to endure?

[@josephcollins6033]

"...I'm sure you can tell where this is going." YOU ARE A RIOT!!

[@ElTio.45-70]

Sawing, Terrifier style.

[@josephcollins6033]

@@ElTio.45-70 Yeah, that one hurt...

[@GirolamoZanchi_is_cool]

And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. - John 3:16 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out. -Acts 3:19 If you’re in North America, please go check out any of the churches available to you: PCA, OPC, Rpcna/Rpc, Urcna, or a canrc church (These are conservative and actual Presbyterian churches) If you can’t find one of the conservative presby churches then, maybe a Lcms Lutheran church. If you are Scottish, I recommend the Free Church of Scotland and the APC (Different from the Church of Scotland) If you’re English I recommend the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in England & Wales and the Free Church of England (Different from the Church of England) Also online you can look up church finders for each of the groups, it will show you locations

[@GirolamoZanchi_is_cool]

@@josephcollins6033🦙

[@GirolamoZanchi_is_cool]

@@ElTio.45-70🦙

[@kathrynswan5831]

I think Joe should be in every future video too, Matt! He’s earned it.

[@yuvalg]

"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind" - Edward Gibbon

[@Davidjagoartist]

I love how this video is presented like an instructional video on how to perform medieval torture

[@knzjvmatc-3]

Brilliantly straightforward presentation...not sure if I'll be able to sleep for the next week...

[@videogenics86]

Just imagine the psychological damage to the people who had to do these things.

[@neighborhoodmusicsnob5517]

They were probably really poor folks who were desperate and had nowhere else to go. Likely many of them became alcoholics. Sad stuff.

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

​@neighborhoodmusicsnob5517 drugs alcohol pork not allowed

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

​@@ChrisTian-rm7zmdog not allowed ect

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

Suicide not allowed

[@neighborhoodmusicsnob5517]

@@LisaHack-hq3dv people did it anyway

[@primus209]

There obviously wasn't much to do back in the day. If only they had some good box sets of The Wire or something to occupy their time.

[@jolemite2639]

“Watch out! Omar’s comin!”

[@FlyingTigersKMT]

How do they even know you would stay conscious long enough? How many times have they done it to get the technique down enough to perfect it?

[@Slippypotatoes]

Practice makes perfect

[@rogerbartlet5720]

On these old paintings and wood-cuts: Ever notice the facial expressions of those being tortured don't at all reflect the pain they must be going through? In some it almost looks like they're enjoying it. Anyone else see this?

[@sunb5738]

I'm not too sure, but I reckon from all the medieval pieces I've seen that none really had exaggerated facial expressions, it may just be because medieval art doesn't really focus on it ?

[@HikariHolic]

so typically from what i know, there was a sort of protocol that martyrs and christians are supposed to appear serene bc of the presence of god and their spiritual state at the time and the cultural significance of "dying a good death" or being a good Christian at the time of death that you would not be fearful and be at peace

[@tomhenry897]

Notice a lot of crowns

[@vicksvaporub3142]

ars moriendi, or the art of dying with dignity; death was everywhere in medieval times, not just in the form of capital punishment but in famine and disease. accepting death without complaint was seen as a sign that you knew you were going to heaven, you had nothing to worry about. it was a pure expression of faith. And so if you wanted to depict someone as being godly or good, you would draw them with a neutral or serene expression on their face, sometimes also looking up towards heaven, while they died, to honor them.

[@kevincates7515]

That's because they kept magical charms on their bodies that kept them from feeling pain. These things aren't just in the past. They will come back.

[@damienleigh9943]

I don't know why I watch these before bed, but I will be sleeping soundly.

[@TjmHackedThisdevice-s3h]

Sweet dreams 🙃

[@mylezzpurhourr]

“Video games cause violence” has left the scene

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

Suicide not allowed

[@enkhyy]

Death by a Thousand Cuts was a torture and execution method in China. A very precise technique for a long and painful process.

[@davidmajor5393]

Lingchi

[@johncitizen3361]

I’m pretty sure that’s actually lingchi which isn’t really death by a thousands of cuts in the way we might think, it’s the removal of chunks of flesh and body parts until the person dies. There are photos of it being performed on people circa 1904 and even in black and white it’s as horrific as you might think.

[@catotheyounger2689]

Sheesh... I didn't realize just how brutal the breaking wheel and sawing were. Really fascinating stuff though

[@oliverelphick2450]

Being impaled to me is possibly the scariest

[@andres1xy]

Yeah well, just being alive in the freakin Middle Ages was already a torture.

[@brianquarterman84]

Great presentation! Loved the explanation. Well done

[@Malvito]

My heart goes out to Joe. Mr. Bill didn't have it so bad.

[@taffykins2745]

😂 good one!

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

​@@taffykins2745don't die as a disbeliever

[@taffykins2745]

@@LisaHack-hq3dv ?????

[@taffykins2745]

@LisaHack-hq3dv What are you talking about? Joe and Mr. Bill are characters, not real people. That's why OPs comment is so funny. Bad things were always happening to Mr. Bill, but Joe in this film got it much worse. I'm not wishing harm on anyone; are you?

[@LisaHack-hq3dv]

@@taffykins2745 fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 never ends for disbelievers

[@Jmac50-k2h]

Divorcing my now ex wife saved me from the worst torture imaginable

[@sunflowerbadger]

Why did I watch this before bed?

[@donna8245]

“I was born in the wrong time!” Me: ‘I’m good, thanks’

[@kevinhalligan5283]

SOME OF THOSE CARTOON POP UPS HAD ME WETTING MYSELF LAUGHING ...

[@strangementalitypaperYT]

22:40 I recognize that painting immediately from the movie In Bruges. Lol

[@vincentparks1282]

"Hello, I am Matt Lewis, and today I'm going to run you through" Lol

[@54mgtf22]

Hey Matt. Love your work 👍

[@GaryDunion]

"Said to have" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in a lot of these stories. As is "often."

[@ambermyers1330]

Well how else are you going to refer to the written accounts we rely upon to understand History?

[@colmanpm]

It's good to see a man who enjoys his work.

[@carolbuzelim]

Rip joe, you did a good job showing us history

[@fotograf736]

How can you leave out drowning in wine, of Duke of Clarence fame? Keelhauling? I think crushing was also used during Salem Witch trials for an old gentleman.

[@tmurphy1000]

Yes “more weight” were his defiant last words.

[@cherryblossomlatte]

What is the artwork used in 18:10 ? The colors are gorgeous!

[@siiri1964]

It’s a painting of Saint Paraskevi located in Church of Saint Marina in Greece. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be much info about it online but you can find the full picture with these details!:)

[@cherryblossomlatte]

@@siiri1964 Thank you! ❤

[@DeidreL9]

Loving the comment section with the sarcasm and humour to dilute the sheer horror. Poor Joe!

[@JohnSchofield-j4i]

Joe's been out of it for a couple of years. He registers and feels nothing.

[@jcam4050]

Great - decided to watch this before bed and my name happens to be Joe lol

[@HumansAreShitFactories]

And

[@miserychannel69]

Imagine .. the suffering. Legendary.

[@jolemite2639]

Pinhead? Is that you?

[@luckyspurs]

"Hi I'm Matt Lewis and today I'm going to run you through". Could you please not.

[@LaurieValdez-zk3dy]

Thank you for the visual aid I ❤ Vlad the impaler

[@Seattle41791]

R.I.P. Joe. Deus misereatur animae tuae

[@sarahcowan1489]

One of my ancestors during Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries was caught hiding priests and mum's in his attic. He was hung, drawn and quartered ; his brother pilfered his head from London bridge, was caught, and hung, drawn and quartered too! John Finch, now canonized by the Catholic Church.

[@jonescrusher1]

Sadism aside, you have to wonder what they thought they were getting out of such elaborate cruelty. The death penalty then was as ineffective a deterrent as it is these days.

[@upgrade1015]

1) the powers were sadistic 2) show to others not to challenge their power. - it’s wild / evil

[@sp3ctr0ph0bia]

because they didnt have “police” or jails (the kinds u think of right now) so crime was extremely high and when they did catch someone which was very rare, they had to punish them in a cruel way to still somehow make a point and deter people from committing crimes

[@jonescrusher1]

@@sp3ctr0ph0bia There are a couple of assumptions there. Was crime 'extremely high'? Was it extremely rare for offenders to be caught? The more extreme punishments were reserved for heresy and political actions, maybe deterrent effect minimal for such non-crimes

[@claytonberg721]

Lead poisoning has a lot to do with it. It made you more irritable, neurotic, and such. Especially amongst the rich. Pottery at the time was glazed with lead, and only the wealthy could afford such pottery. I do not know if they kept track of how effective a deterrent the death penalty was. Torture was considered a valid means of extracting information then as well.

[@Nate-bn5kk]

@@claytonberg721 I'm pretty sure the lead pipes theory was debunked, people have always been evil, no lead needed.

[@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul]

Cases of treason? The problem is, every crime imaginable was called treason.

[@Flies_the_limit]

I knew a guy who said he belonged in the medieval era. Even said he wish it was still like the medieval era. Nobody ever accused him of being smart.

[@chrisstrawn4108]

Ugh. I honestly could only make it halfway through this-- and I love horror movies. I tried to imagine what it would be like to see people doing this do someone and wanted to puke.

[@Aladinscave]

The scary part is people are still this sadistic given the right conditions…..

[@TheMiniJunkie]

The pain ...like, that breaking wheel....I can't even imagine the pain! Edit: the look on my face as he described sawing via hanging upside down....just horrified lol.

[@squeakycleannnn]

This is just beautiful.

[@markdotinc8371]

KZbin autoplay finally coming up clutch

[@PaigeWayland-r1d]

Can anyone explain the Pear of Agony? I actually saw one in a museum case of torture devices, but I couldn't figure out why such a complicated instrument would be used

[@Jaded_Mandarin]

No mention exists of the so-called "Pear of Anguish" as a torture device before 19th century when most of the alleged "Medieval torture instruments" were invented and reproduced because people became fascinated with them. If any genuine expanding pear-type devices exist (the earliest reliably traceable example was catalogued in Louvre in 1856, obtained from a private collection), historians have suggested possible uses ranging from stretching socks to squeezing fruit juice.

[@AD-ks1sz]

The Pear would be placed in an orifice, and the screw turned to expand the petals thus stretching the orifice.

[@the.Redeemer-l7t]

fascinating,thank you my man 👍

[@CatsSecondChance]

Just doing genealogy research so watched this - thanks for explaining it. One of my ancestors was murdered by a slave (her head chopped off over a fire wood altercation) in 1692, South Africa. The slave who murdered her was broken on the wheel. First time I've ever heard of this method

[@SpicyLunarDust]

Loved it!

[@davewilson9738]

And now we have social media!

[@JohnSchofield-j4i]

And can watch it live.

[@benharis1956]

He can write a book on all this like 101 ways to kill and torture the medieval way.

[@dulls8475]

His problems started with that nail up his harris.

[@dogueacademy]

Well, now. I watched this video while eating dinner. I think I might need to review my life choices 😅😅😅

[@karlkarlos3545]

What I always wondering is who came up with this ideas, and what kind of person volunteers to do this to other people?

[@michaelschmidlkofer3979]

Interestingly enough, the adoption of torture to extract proof of guilt was considered an improvement over the prior practice of subjecting the accused to ordeal. There’s a good book on the subject called “Torture and the Law of Proof” it also explains how torture in Europe had relatively rigid rules around its use, and was different from the eventual gruesome punishments that were imposed when found guilty.

[@cypherglitch]

it happened much much earlier, earliest starting around 895, was the very imaginative way of giving someone wings, their version of redbull, the Blood Eagle.

[@kevinmcqueenie7420]

The Blood Eagle is not attested in contemporary sources, and only really mentioned in the sagas after the advent of Christianity, so its historicity is pretty dubious (just like that other favorite of Viking lore, the Berserker).

[@cypherglitch]

@cqueenie7420 Vikings were not known in documenting everything, especially in details as runes ae not like that, and are known mainly due to their neighbours documenting it all. Historians dont go for contemporary sources and prefer to look in the history documentations, close to the said date the better. There is enough "writings" about the berserker to know that it is based on similar stories.

[@kevinmcqueenie7420]

@@cypherglitch true, but again, nobody at the time, Dane/Norse/Saxons/Franks etc. mentions it. It comes later, so while it could be true, I do take it with a grain of salt.

[@cypherglitch]

@cqueenie7420 yeah, when I first heard about it I was wondering how the hell they split the sternum to make the wings. but the vikings were giants. yeah sounds awesome, for a tv series way. it does line up with the way vikings were seen though.

[@heatherglenfield9554]

The first time I had heard of it was watching the series Vikings. The Blood Eagle thing...yikes, but as you said, no record of it actually being practiced. I remember thinking that the person would likely die from shock shortly into the procedure, unlike the first portrayal in Vikings where the poor sod remains conscious throughout. Either way...pretty creative dispatch.

[@donaldpetersen2382]

This channel is so fun🤗

[@mange2]

Similar tortures are still used today in some cultures. Isn't the Human race a wonderful species.

[@thefivepoints]

These days they just force you to listen to radio 1.

[@Zero.Limit007]

If you compare hell punishment and medieval punishment then hell would be a child's play

[@rickynieves3144]

What happened to the rack?😢

[@Jenifer.flute20]

I can’t imagine the people who, for lack of a better word, administered these executions. What type of person are they? Doesn’t matter how mad I am at a person, I wouldn’t be able to do this those of things to another.

[@thebelen2359]

Executioners often inhereted their profession. Meaning, they knew from the day they were old enough to understand that they would be doing this, and saw their fathers do it too. Anyone is capable of doing this if they're raised to; if they have it instilled from childhood that this is what they're supposed to do with their lives. Not to mention that people back then in general were more desensitized to this type of thing. That's not to say an average person from back then would be ok doing this stuff (I don't think an average person from today would be ok giving someone a lethal injection, for a comparison), but it was more normalized, for a lack of a better word.

[@eileenlocke7877]

Th u for yr channel . Although grim 😢

[@SHANECatLovinActivistHistorian]

most of these acts of cruelty was done by someone wanting to keep their power or gain land

[@kevinmott6205]

Fascinating thanks ❤

[@dumber_sleepy_artist]

I will be watching this before i go to sleep :)

[@spectre-8]

This is insane to me. Were people really this evil? Are we the same people as these people?

[@bunnygirl2448]

The most famous case of “pressing” torture in the American colonies was of Giles Corey who refused to plead guilty or not guilty (in order to save his property) to being a witch during the “Salem Witch Trials” in 1692

[@upgrade1015]

Imagine they gave you the boil but they couldn’t get it hot enough, ends up being a hot tub ( but you yell and put on a show ) until they think your done for …. They leave , you climb out warm and clean and escape

[@taffykins2745]

Would never happen. Nice fantasy though. Sadly, what you are hearing here is the real thing. Some empathy, yes?

[@Ms.Histrology]

Somebody had a lot of fun editing this 🤣