The Pear of Anguish - Authentic?

Описание: Along with the Iron Maiden, the Pear of Anguish isn't a real "medieval" torture device. Using Prof. Chris Bishop's article "The ‘Pear of Anguish’: Truth, Torture and Dark Medievalism" as a guide, let's take a look at the history of it, and when it first appeared in text, to get a better idea of why it was created.

Sources
Articles and Scholarly Works:
Chris Bishop, “The ‘pear of anguish’: Truth, Torture and Dark medievalism” (2014) | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full...
The London Dungeon, “7 of our favourite torture devices” (2017) | https://www.thedungeons.com/london/in...

Books:
Histoire Des Larrons, or the History of Theeves. Trans. Paul Godwin. (1638) | https://archive.org/details/bim_early...

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