![]() ![]() So, I decided it was permissible for me to enter the conversation, especially because I felt the conversation itself was completely inappropriate in its structure,” Ingle told Campus Reform. Thirty seconds or so passed and still no woman had spoken. “The floor was opened, and not a single woman spoke. Barring men from speaking until the women in the class have had their chance to speak.”… Following the video, Ingle wrote that the instructor “opened the floor to WOMEN ONLY. From Campus Reform…Ī student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania has been barred from attending a religious studies class required for graduation after pointing out that there are only two genders…Īccording to Lake Ingle, the class was forced to watch a Ted-Talk on February 28 featuring Paula Stone, a transgender woman, who gave examples of “mansplaining,” “male privilege,” and systematic sexism. Oh, and he disputed the wage gap myth with, get this, facts and figures! Lake Ingle, a student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, has been barred from class and could be prevented from graduating all because he told nutty leftist professor Alison Downie that, according to biologists, there are only two genders. This one is particularly galling, however. There was even a torture which used tickling as a method to inflict suffering.Another day, another travesty going on at one of our nation’s institutions of higher learning. Instruments or devices of Middle Ages Torture Other tortures included the compression of the limbs by special instruments, or by ropes, injection of water, vinegar, or oil, into the body of the accused, application of hot pitch, and starvation, were the processes used in tortures. The instruments or devices used in Medieval torture of the Middle Ages included some of the following terrible tools or machines:Ī skilled torturer would use methods, devices and instruments to prolong life as long as possible whilst inflicting agonising pain. However, the customs of the Medieval period dictated that many prisoners were tortured before they were executed in order to obtain additional information about their crime or their accomplices. There were many forms of torture and execution. ![]() The execution method itself was part of the torture endured by prisoners. Middle Ages Torture Chambers and Dungeons These final methods of torture and execution included the following methods: The torture chambers were located in the lower parts of castles. The entrances to many torture chambers were accessed through winding passages which served to muffle the agonising cries of torture victims from the normal inhabitants of the castle. Torture chambers and dungeons were often very small some measured only eleven feet long by seven feet wide in which from ten to twenty prisoners were often incarcerated at the same time. The barbarous custom of punishment by torture was on several occasions condemned by the Church. By means of the torture, an innocent man may suffer to the utmost without making any avowal and, in such a case, what a crime for the judge! Or the person may be subdued by pain, and may acknowledge himself guilty, although he be not so, which throws an equally great sin upon the judge." Despite this, and other please, the practise of torturing victims continued.Īs early as 866, we find, from Pope Nicholas V's letter to the Bulgarians, that their custom of torturing the accused was considered contrary to divine as well as to human law: "For," says he, "a confession should be voluntary, and not forced. ![]() Medieval Torture was a freely accepted form of punishment in the Middle Ages and was only abolished in England in 1640.ĬRUX ( σταυρός, σκόλοψ ), an instrument of capital punishment, used by several ancient nations, especially the Romans and Carthaginians. The words σταυρόω and σκολοπίζω are also applied to Persian and Egyptian punishments, but Casaubon (Exer. xvi.77) doubts whether they describe the Roman method of crucifixion. xiv.1) we learn the latter to have been of two kinds, the less usual sort being rather impalement than what we should describe by the word crucifixion, as the criminal was transfixed by a pole, which passed through the back and spine and came out at the mouth. The cross was of several kinds one in the shape of an X, called crux Andreana, because tradition reports St. ![]()
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