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Video: The cruel laws of the Middle Ages: for dissent - death
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
At all times, people who at least somehow stood out from the crowd (physically or spiritually), became outcasts in society. In the Middle Ages, in general, all persons objectionable to the church were declared witches and sorcerers and were sent to the death penalty.
Bible translations
Previously, it was believed that one of the foundations of Christianity is the Bible, it was necessary to read only in Latin in order to avoid its distorted interpretation. Of course, educated people could do this, and the bulk only accepted everything that the clergy put into their ears. However, not everyone put up with this state of affairs and created translations available to the people, often even at the cost of their lives. So the English reformer and scholar William Tyndale translated the Bible into his native language, for which he was burned at the stake.
Thoughtcrime
Giordano Bruno became one of the most famous personalities of the Middle Ages, affected by the expression of his opinion. For his cosmological ideas and doubts about the veracity of everything described in the Bible, the Italian monk was accused of blasphemy, heresy and burned at the stake in Rome.
Smoking
In the modern world, the intensified promotion of a healthy lifestyle in every possible way criticizes heavy smokers and hinders their rights to smoke in public places. However, these inconveniences are absolutely harmless in comparison with the punishments that were introduced for smoking in the Middle Ages. The Catholic Church saw a demonic message in this habit. People who blew smoke from their noses were accused of having connections with the devil. Many were declared witchers for this and burned. In Russia, before the era of Peter the Great, who brought the fashion for smoking tobacco from the West, those who smoke could be subjected to corporal punishment. And after the fire of 1634 in Moscow, smokers could be executed altogether.
"Revealing" witches
In the Medieval era, if a person somehow stood out from the crowd (suddenly became rich, had bodily injuries, or, conversely, was too handsome), then he could be accused of witchcraft. Moreover, the methods of "identifying" witches could be completely absurd. So the famous witch hunter Matthew Hopkins believed: if the alleged sorceress is placed in a closed room and an insect penetrates there, then her guilt will be proven.
Two fingers
It is believed that in medieval Russia it was the death penalty that was much less than in Europe. But closer to the second half of the 17th century, this trend changed. In connection with the church reforms of Patriarch Nikon, Old Believers appeared in the country who did not want to accept the new way of life. Their most famous distinguishing feature was two fingers (the sign of the cross was performed with two fingers). Numerous persecutions and executions accompanied the Old Believers. The Middle Ages is considered the period in history with the most ruthless attitude towards people. These 13 types of torture devices made people confess to anything.
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