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Video: Facts about executions in Europe
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
Executions were a major public entertaining the London public for centuries … The main gallows was an ingenious swivel structure and had a playful name. There was a reason for humor: there were 23 loops on uneven beams, so it may have reminded the British of something - either a Christmas tree with decorations, or something else.
She also had a more neutral name - "Derrick's car", after the last name of the local executioner for many years, there was even a saying "reliable, like Derrick's car."
Peeling off the skin alive
This is a fairly frequent plot, not only graphics, but also the painting of Western Europe, and the thoroughness and accuracy of the oil paintings testifies, firstly, that the artists were familiar with the subject firsthand, and secondly, of a genuine interest in the topic. Suffice it to recall the Dutch painter of the late 15th - early 16th centuries. Gerard David.
Below is Michel Foucault's book "Discipline and Punish" (by the way, there is another skin peeling on the cover), there are many quotes from the instructions on the procedures of executions and public torture in different European countries up to the middle of the last century. European entertainers used a lot of imagination to make executions not only extremely long and painful, but also spectacular - one of the chapters in Foucault's book is entitled "The Glitter of Execution."
True human rights
Denmark passed a law in 1800 providing for the death penalty for anyone who “even advised” the abolition of unrestricted government. And eternal hard labor for those who dared to condemn the actions of the government. The Kingdom of Naples at the end of the 18th century dealt with everything supposedly revolutionary, many thousands of people were executed. Contemporaries wrote about the gallows forest.
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