Far more than just a method of execution, hanging and gibbeting in the medieval world were designed to inflict lasting pain and public shame. While hanging could be swift, gibbeting often left the ...

Either way, one needs to examine the original embroidery still housed in Bayeux, France, to properly analyze the total penis ...

Cardinal Camerlengo Kevin Joseph Farrell, center right, spreads incense around the body of Pope Francis inside St. Peter's ...

State officials were herded to attend the square in an act intended to shame the dead teen and his family, which critics called “medieval savagery”. A video of the shocking scene shows a body ...

Pune: Two management students from Madhya Pradesh died after their sports motorcycle crashed into the railings of the Paud Phata flyover around 3.15am on Monday. The accident occurred when the two ...

And bodies are the spot where all that squalor and pain get actualised. Imagine the medieval body in relation to the quotidian ordeals of lice, ticks and fleas, to the sweeping scythes of disease, ...