medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I guess I'm going to have to check my sources. Sorry if I've misled the
list, but this has been an interesting string!
Cheers,
Jim
On 26/10/2011 2:06 PM, HenkADSL wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> People were hanged with a rope noose in the centre of a city. This could be
> a market place, an open area before a church or town hall, or a bridge. A
> gallows was erected for the occasion, because this occurred less often then
> you think. After the culprit had died he or she usually hung there until
> sundown, then was taken down and carried or ridden to a place outside the
> town walls or moat where there was a permanent structure like the one at
> Montfaucon (although rarely as big) where several corpses could be hung at a
> time. These were hung in chains passed under the arms, not with rope. There
> he/she hung until the corpse dropped down of it's own accord. Then it was
> buried nearby by the town's gallows keeper(s). Mind you; it was not always
> done as structured as I wrote here. Family, for instance, could free the
> corpse after he died, for a fee, and it would never get to the public
> gallows out of town.
>
> I doubt if ecclestical courts had gallows, as they were not allowed to
> pronounce death sentences. So gallows in church yards, being church property
> and excempt are unlikely.
>
> Henk
>
>
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> Van: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious culture
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Namens Christopher Crockett
> Verzonden: woensdag 26 oktober 2011 20:09
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> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> From: HenkADSL<[log in to unmask]>
>
>> Most medieval cities had multi persons' gallows outside of the town,
> but i've heard the *those* suburban gallows were for "show" only, since ">
> Usually, after being hanged, the corpses were moved out of town to the
> gallows hill where they hung until they dropped off."
>
> which is it?
>
>> "Long ago, rue de la Grange-aux-Belles, on the north side of the
>> Hôpital
> St-Louis, was a dusty track leading uphill, past fields, en route to
> Germany. Where no. 53 now stands, a path led to the top of a small hillock.
> Here, in 1325, on the king's orders, an enormous gallows was built,
> consisting of a plinth 6m high, on which stood sixteen stone pillars each
> 10m high. These were joined by chains, from which malefactors were hanged in
> clusters. They were left there until they disintegrated, by way of example,
> and they stank so badly that when the wind blew from the northeast they
> infected the nostrils of the still far-off city. The practice continued
> until the seventeenth century. Bones and other remains from the pit into
> which they were thrown were found during the building of a garage in 1954".
>
>
>
> may i quote you on that?
>
> c
>
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