(monday) history in your game 09-29-2003

[alsih2o]

(monday) history in your game

torture, martyrs and witches-with other dinner conversation

Caution: links contain some strong images and depictions of torture equipment and methods. nothing too graphic, mostly medieval illustrations, but be careful if you are not comfortable with such stuff

we start with a firsthand account of inquisitorial torture from a 13th century fransciscan- http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/clareno-inq.html

a page with pictures of the basic torture implements of europe- http://www.angelfire.com/mt/mspepper/torturepics.html

a nice look at "trial by ordeal" the rest of the page is full of useful stuff too- http://www.communities.ninemsn.com.au/InstrumentsofTortureMedievaltoModern/trialbyordeal1.msnw

the historical torture museum(graphic intensive in places, and i mean computer speed, not graphic detail)- http://www.torturamuseum.com/

good pics of torture implements with short descriptions- http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Basement/9560/tdevices.html

medieval torture trading cards! - http://apollinaria.rema.ru/martyr.html

witchkilling "chronicle" listing all the nasty things done to accused witches. it is sof full of game goodness!- http://www.illusions.com/burning/frampage.htm

more "bunrning times" and witches- http://www.witchway.net/times/times.html

historical paper refuting many of the myths and misconceptions of the inquisition- http://www.geocities.com/militantis/inquisition2.html

 

[alsih2o]

bump for the night crew...

 

[Dakkareth]

Nice stuff.

Mmhh ... a while back I saw a thread named '1000 non-gaming resources for gamers' or something similar with hundreds of links to interesting things like this ...

 

[KB9JMQ]

Neat stuff, Thanks Clay

 

[fusangite]

Clay, on Mondays, I have two interactions with history: my honours history seminar and your ratty page of links. Your is consistently the more informative.

 

[willpax]

As always, I thank you for the links. I found the stuff on the Inquisition most interesting.

 

[alsih2o]

Clay, on Mondays, I have two interactions with history: my honours history seminar and your ratty page of links. Your is consistently the more informative.

hey, thanks....believe it or not this is not the first time i have been complimented with the word ratty

 

[Ysgarran]

There is something just wrong about torture trading cards...

medieval torture trading cards! - http://apollinaria.rema.ru/martyr.html

 

[seasong]

Once again, alsih20 reads my mind and preps some stuff for my game for me. Thanks, man.

-seasong