Medieval instruments of torture

torture device used for capital punishment

torture device

thumb|Stocks, unlike the pillory or pranger, restrain only the feet.

thumb|upright=1.35|The strappado, used as public punishment; detail of plate 10 of by Jacques Callot, 1633

instruments of torture and interrogation designed to cause crushing injuries to the foot and/or leg

a torture device that roughly resembles a neckless horse

chair or commode where offenders are strapped as a form of punishment

thumb|upright=1.5|Daniel Defoe in the Pillory (Eyre Crowe, 1862) thumb|upright|The 17th-century perjurer Titus Oates in a pillory

Torture device

torture instrument

thumb|A man wearing a schandmantel thumb|Schandmantel A ' or (German, "coat of shame" or "barrel of shame"), sometimes also Spanish coat', is a torture device which came into use in the 13th century. were fashioned from wood and sometimes lined with sheet metal. Victims were made to wear this device in public where they would be insulted, humiliated and have rotten vegetables thrown at them. The was mostly used as punishment for poachers and prostitutes or other petty crimes and not known to be used to torture other people. It was an alternative to throwing someone into the stockade or prison.