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From: Don <g@crcomp.net>
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Subject: Re: King Laurin?
Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 14:08:34 -0000 (UTC)
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Jerry Brown wrote:
> Don wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>    It was known then as 'Godly butchery' or 'three deaths'. Today, we
>>    recognise the gruesome method of execution, /unique to England/,
>>    that is seemingly synonymous with the medieval period as being
>>    hanged, drawn and quartered.
>>
>><https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/hanging-drawing-quartering-what-why-treason-disembowelment/>
>
> "Pennyworth" the spinoff from "Gotham" was set in alternate 60s UK in
> which hanging, drawing and quartering is broadcast live on TV from the
> Tower of London. I recall several questions on the message boards at
> the time which thought that this was the case in the real UK!
>
> There are also gibbets on the streets of Westminster (which also
> wasn't the case in the real world).
>
> AFAIC this show managed to beat "Game of Thrones" for gore (I don't
> watch any of the multiplicity of zombie shows, which may hold the top
> ranking).

Gore's not for me, at least not on a superficial level. It's deeper
sociological implications intrigue me:

    Sociological propaganda expresses itself in many different
    ways - in advertising, in the movies (commercial and non-
    political films), in technology in general, in education,
    in the /Reader's Digest/; and in social work, case work,
    and settlement houses. All of these influences are in basic
    accord with each other and lead spontaneously in the same
    direction; one hesitates to call all this propaganda.

    _Propaganda - The Formation of Men's Attitudes_ (Ellul)

# # #

The groupthink enshrined in law as The Treason Act of 1351 shares some
similarities with this thread's expected, yet unexpected (as TV viewers
see it), Spanish Inquisition:

    So barbaric was the form of execution that it could only
    be carried out on men, as it was deemed indecent to
    expose a woman’s body to such treatment. A woman
    convicted of treason would instead be beheaded or burned
    at the stake.

    (Ibid)

Danke,

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