A History of Torture | The Dark Ages | Human Voiced, No Ads

00:00:00 Introduction and Welcome 00:05:56 Wergild and Its Limits 00:11:08 God as Judge 00:20:23 The Carolingians 00:26:30 Byzantium 00:34:39 "Voluntary" Confession 00:38:29 Voluntary Suffering 00:45:08 Vikings 00:49:50 Feudal Justice 00:53:27 The Recovery of Roman Law Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @asmr_historian   Support the channel on Patreon:   / asmrhistorian   Merch: https://histmerch.shop/ Sources and Further Reading Peters, Edward. Torture. Expanded ed. (1996). Lea, Henry Charles. Superstition and Force: Essays on the Wager of Law, the Wager of Battle, the Ordeal, Torture (1866). Bartlett, Robert. Trial by Fire and Water: The Medieval Judicial Ordeal (1986). Collins, Roger. Early Medieval Europe, 300–1000 (1991). Wickham, Chris. The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400–1000 (2009). Justinian I. Corpus Juris Civilis (529–534 CE). Ed. Theodor Mommsen and Paul Krueger (1872). Kantorowicz, Ernst. The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology (1957). Pope Nicholas I. "Letter to the Bulgarians" (Responsa ad consulta Bulgarorum). 866 CE. Available in Patrologia Latina Vol. 119. Brown, Peter. The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (1988). Pennington, Kenneth. The Prince and the Law, 1200–1600: Sovereignty and Rights in the Western Legal Tradition (1993). Information sourced from Wiki, Gutenburg, JSTOR, primary and secondary sources. All information is congruent with archaeological and history evidence at the time of recording.