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Medieval torture: everything you wanted to know


Episode 2081


Why were people tortured in the Middle Ages? Was it ever legal? Did the infliction of physical pain play as large a role in medieval prosecutions as we might think? And did anyone actually experience the deadly embrace of the Iron Maiden? Speaking to Charlotte Hodgman, historian Professor Hannah Skoda answers a range of listener questions on torture in the medieval era.


The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine.

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