The Early Modern Guillotine

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  • July 20, 2022 at 5:22 pm #5632
    Philologus
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    The guillotine is first described in 1210, and was very common in western Europe by the 16th century (Poor Wikipedia gets confused because one group of editors wants to stick with the story that it was a product of the Enlightenment, while another group knows the paintings and surviving guillotines from the 16th century). This print in the Rijksmuseum has a nice picture of a beheading machine from 1553 https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/1540-1549/

    July 22, 2022 at 5:14 am #5690
    Jean Chandler
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    I think that link wasn’t what it meant to be

    July 22, 2022 at 2:01 pm #5691
    Jean Chandler
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    But that is interesting I had no idea “decapitation machines” were that old.

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