medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: HenkADSL <[log in to unmask]>
> Usually, after being hanged, the corpses were moved out of town to the
gallows hill where they hung until they dropped off.
sooo.... there was no actual gallows on Gallows Hill?
i previously mentioned the many late m.a. paintings of the Crucifixion, always
"out of town", always with a crowd of (sometimes enthusiastic)
rubberkneckers.
yes, Golgotha was "out of town" and beyond the walls of J., but i would
venture to say that it was not historical "reality" which was being portrayed
by the painters of the 15-16th cc., but the Reality of their own day, in which
many (perhaps not all) executions were conducted "out of town."
of course, to refute that, there's this
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/MuensterHinrichtungTaeufer.jpg
c
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