Medieval Torture & Execution

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

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🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

When you say ‘going medieval’ on someone, it brings up quite nasty connotations.

But is this brutal suggestion a fair depiction of medieval times and their thoughts on torture and punishment? What are some of the more gruesome methods they employed? And why did Henry I give authorisation for his own granddaughter-in-law to be blinded?

Joining Kate today is Matt Lewis, co-host of our sister podcast, Gone Medieval, to find out more.

This episode was edited by Sophie Gee. The producer was Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.

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0:00.0	From BBC Radio 4, Britain's biggest paranormal podcast is going on a road trip.
0:07.0	I thought in that moment, oh my God, we've summoned something from this board.
0:15.0	This is uncanny USA.
0:18.0	He says somebody's in the house and I screamed.
0:22.0	A. Listen to Uncanny USA wherever you get your BBC podcasts, if you dare. Hello my lovely
0:38.6	lovely bit tricksters it's me Kate Lister you are here am here, everybody is here that should be here, but before we can go any further together,
0:47.0	I have to give you the Fairdews warning because this is a podcast that contains language and it contains adults and it contains
0:53.9	adultery language so here we go this is an adult
0:57.3	podcast book by adults to other adults about adulty things in an adult
1:00.4	way covering the range of adult subjects and you should be an adult too.
1:04.2	So if you have wandered in here thinking that betwixt the sheets is some nice little program
1:09.5	about bedding, you are not wanted here. Be off with yourself yourself don't be writing us angry letters for the
1:15.7	rest of you on with the show
1:20.9	good morrow kind betwixters lovely day for a public execution wouldn't you say?
1:30.0	It's the 14th century after all and the people of London are out in their
1:36.1	thousands for today's poor soul who is being subjected to let me just see
1:41.6	yes they're being hanged, drawn, and quartered.
1:46.0	A punishment, it would seem, which was the result of a,
1:49.0	what's the worst thing that we could possibly do to a human being brainstorm and they
1:54.5	nailed the brief to be fair. You've just missed the first part which is the
1:58.8	drawing that's the dragging the poor bugger by a horse through the streets of London to the place of execution, giving
2:05.6	us plebs a chance to chuck all sorts of things at them as they go.
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