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| Title | The story of Nuremberg |
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| Publisher | J. M. Dent & Co. |
| Date | 1899 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 303 pages; 18 cm |
| Original Item Location | DD901.N93 H4 1899 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1684865~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
| Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
| Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
| Identifier | exotic_201304_001 |
| Title | Page 163 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_170.jpg |
| Transcript | Thr Council tse condemned too much about temporal matters! After sentence had been passed by the Council a public trial of an entirely formal character was held, very wearisome to the condemned wretch, who probably knew th.v was so empty a form that it was held even if the prisoner had already succumbed to the torture or committed suicide in the cells. In Nuremberg, as elsewh< as methods of punishment were employed. Much ingenuity and some humour were displayed in making " the punishment fit the crii The shrew was tamed, as in land, by the application of the Brank or scold's bridle—an iron framework placed over the head in such a way that a plate covered with spikes, which attached to it, fitted into the mouth. Thieves, like English authors, had their cart cut off. This operation was performed on the Fleischbriicke. tongues of blasphemers were torn out, and if the banished returned to the city their eyes were gouged out. TV. treatment was often applied in to junior princes not required to be heirs. But there the removal of the eyeball gave way, in later I, to the drawing of a red-hot sword blade across the eyeball. In Italy the use of a heated metal basin (bacinare) was preferred. *nd, we punished drunkenness, as lately .; confine ment in the stocks, the use of the ordinary Nuremberg punishment— kard's Cloak"—a ba: worn afn uner of a cloak—was almost confined to Newcisrt. The Moslem punishment for wine-drinkers—the pouring of melted lead down the offender's throat—does not appear to have been in vogue. Other devices shown in t cornered ish horse, which suggests modern American method of " riding on a finger-cramp for bad musicians, pipes for excessive |