Posts Tagged ‘1500s’
Caning at court
The figure above, possibly a king, looks rather like Good King Wenceslas of Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic). He was a man with a strong sense of justice from a part of the world where the chastisement of women has a long and continuing tradition. It is not clear if this is indeed the […]
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Tags: 1500s, 16th century, Bohemia, caning, Eliazabethian, public humiliation, punishment, spanking, the cane