Medieval Torture's 10 Biggest Myths | LiveScience
#4. Out of Sight, Out of Mind?
Criminals who committed lesser offenses were often subject to a policy of three strikes and you're out-literally. Rather than killing them off or letting them clog up prisons, repeat offenders were often simply banished from a city and not allowed back. Humane and cost efficient? Yup-just don't tell the next, unsuspecting town over.
#2. The Lawless Middle Age Villages?
Earlier medieval communities had much more social responsibility than today, in fact. If one member of a village claimed they'd been wronged, he or she would raise a "Hue and Cry" and every resident had to join in the hunt and persecution of the criminal or else they would all be held responsible as a whole.
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These are my faves, but the whole thing is worth takin' a look at.
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