Archaeologists discover medieval man ‘broken on the wheel' - Medievalists.net

…like the ones I had seen in woodcuts of the martyrdoms of the saints, in my old nurse's little store of holy books.

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All three woodcuts are from Trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani (archive.org) (Tortures And Torments Of The Christian Martyrs ****[archive.org]) (1591) by Antonio Gallonio, woodcuts by Antonio Tempesta, via Wikipedia.

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