London Dungeons

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London's Horrible History

Bezoek aan de London Dungeon

Combinatie van spookhuis en interactieve toneelstukjes over de gruwelijke zaken uit de geschiedenis van Londen....

Punishments and Crimes

• Tortured to find out the "truth"
• From exile to terrible punishments

Punishment in Medieval times

• Sure: Corporal punishments and death existed... but usually punishment meant that you had to pay a fine. 
  
• Die leverden meer op en kostten minder geld: een beul moet je als stad namelijk ook gewoon betalen!
• Money meant the cities were able to pay for their taxes and other expenses: the executioner cost money as well

Types of crimes

Examples of this type of criminal activity include: Theft, Robbery, Burglary, Poaching and Smuggling.

Examples of this type of criminal activity include: Heresy, Treason and Illegal Protest.

Examples of this type of criminal activity include: Murder, Manslaughter, Sexual Crimes or Assault.

Death

- Decapitation
- hanging

- burning
- drawing and quartering

Straffen was een familieuitje...

...bedoeld om af te schrikken

The breaking wheel

In France, the condemned were placed on a cartwheel with their limbs stretched out along the spokes over two sturdy wooden beams. The wheel was made to revolve slowly, and a large hammer or an iron bar was then applied to the limb over the gap between the beams, breaking the bones.

Er waren veel variaties op oprekken...

dit was zo extreem pijnlijk dat mensen eigenlijk altijd bekenden (of ze het nu gedaan hadden of niet

Dit oprek-apparaat staat in de Tower of London

Locking someone up in the "iron maiden"

Burning

In the Middle Ages burning was used both as a form of torture and as a capital punishment. As a form of torture the victims feet could be held to a fire, or trapped into metal boots that were heated up, or they could be strapped into an iron chair with a fire lit underneath, or red hot irons could be applied.

Keeping someone in the same position

Deze is ook in de Tower te vinden

Drowning

Torture chair

Hooks to grab body parts

Pyres (For those who went against the churches rules)

Done in England by 'Bloody Mary' (you will encounter them in the Dungeons)

The stocks

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