Real Torture in the Fourteenth Century?

[Pia]

We all know (even though sometimes we prefer to pretend otherwise, because we like to) that many of the tortures we dream and write about were not actually used (or very little used) and that many are later inventions/imaginations (the pear of anguish etc).

But we also know that, on occassions, torture was used (and on women) in C14th - Pernilla de Meath comes to mind.

So my question is what sort of torture might she (and others) actually have been put to in that far-off time?

I'd love to know, so I can better dream...

 

[Madiosi]

Possibile examples:
http://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/the-hell-of-inquisition.5752/
http://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/torture-and-sexual-violence-in-the-dungeon.5325/

 

[messaline]

Petronilla rather than Pernilla ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronilla_de_Meath

 

[windar]

Perhaps this....

A render by jucundus of a drawing by bastndo

 

[Eulalia]

We all know (even though sometimes we prefer to pretend otherwise, because we like to) that many of the tortures we dream and write about were not actually used (or very little used) and that many are later inventions/imaginations (the pear of anguish etc).

But we also know that, on occassions, torture was used (and on women) in C14th - Pernilla de Meath comes to mind.

So my question is what sort of torture might she (and others) actually have been put to in that far-off time?

I'd love to know, so I can better dream...

Have you come across Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror: the calamitous fourteenth century?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Distant_Mirror
I haven't got a copy, it's a long time since I read it, but I recall she wove in some detailed accounts
of 'peine forte et dure'

Petronilla rather than Pernilla ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronilla_de_Meath

Pernilla is a contracted form of Petronilla, I think mainly in Scandinavian countries,
I don't know if it was current in 14th century Ireland.

 

[Pia]

Have you come across Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror: the calamitous fourteenth century?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Distant_Mirror
I haven't got a copy, it's a long time since I read it, but I recall she wove in some detailed accounts
of 'peine forte et dure'


Pernilla is a contracted form of Petronilla, I think mainly in Scandinavian countries,
I don't know if it was current in 14th century Ireland.

It sounds nicer to me.... and I am happy to have been redirected towards the lovely pictures = I have an idea of how it may have been for her now...indeed ropes and fire would be the easiest way to torture a lovely girl... simple and effective and beautifully cruel...

 

[Madiosi]

Have you come across Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror: the calamitous fourteenth century?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Distant_Mirror
I haven't got a copy, it's a long time since I read it, but I recall she wove in some detailed accounts
of 'peine forte et dure'


Pernilla is a contracted form of Petronilla, I think mainly in Scandinavian countries,
I don't know if it was current in 14th century Ireland.

Interesting, it exist in German also.
https://www.amazon.de/s?k=der+ferne...0372&tag=googhydr08-21&ref=pd_sl_1w7b2cwwvb_e