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How bloody was medieval life?

February 22, 2019 posted by Steve Brownstein

In the 1300s in northern France, a nasty character named Jacquemon bribed a jailer to let his unwanted son-in-law die a painful death in prison.

Jacquemon then, with the help of his son, killed his nephew, Colart Cordele.

The impoverished Cordele had followed Jacquemon during the harvest, trying to glean the wheat from behind him, but angered his uncle by coming too close.

Jacquemon grabbed his nephew by his hood, hurled him brutally to the ground and “spurred his horse to ride again and again” over the crumpled body.

It’s an episode that might have been lifted from Game of Thrones – no wonder the era has become a byword for brutality.

Indeed, during a brutal scene in the film Pulp Fiction... Continues on their web site:

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