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The Twisted History Behind Medieval Torture Museums


The Twisted History Behind Medieval Torture Museums

The Twisted History Behind Medieval Torture Museums

As Albrecht Classen, a professor in the University of Arizona’s German Studies department, explains, many of the supposedly ancient, ironwork torture implements now found in near-identical copies across European capitals were originally created centuries later to feed Victorian England’s appetite for tales of medieval gore and brutality.