Medieval Torture
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Medieval Torture In the middle ages torture was used to extract information, force confessions, punish suspects, frighten opponents, and satisfy personal hatred. The word 'torture' comes from the French torture, originating in the Late Latin tortura and ultimately deriving the past participle of torquere meaning 'to twist'. Many tortures rely on a twisting of the limbs, twisting ligatures, or turning screw mechanisms. For the most part capital punishments in Christendom have been deliberately painful. Severe historical penalties include the breaking on the wheel, boiling to death, burning, crucifixion, crushing, disembowelment, dismemberment, flaying, impalement, sawing, scaphism and stoning. Historically, ancient Greeks and Romans used torture for interrogation. Until the second century AD, torture was used only on slaves.. A slave's testimony was admissible only if extracted by torture, on the assumption that slaves could not be trusted to reveal the truth volunta