12 Medieval Punishments Too Brutal For The Modern World

12 Medieval Punishments Too Brutal For The Modern World By the later medieval period, the torture chambers of Europe had developed a vast and grim arsenal of instruments. Most were large, elaborate, theatrical. But interrogators across the continent kept returning to one of the smallest devices in the room, a piece of metal no larger than a man's fist, which they considered among the most reliable tools they owned. It had no grand name. It simply worked.