Donkey ride
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The donkey ride was an honor punishment known since the 9th century and mainly used in the Middle Ages . The punished man was led through the town on a donkey , sometimes backwards and naked. The punitive procession was used for public disgrace and abuse.
This form of delinquent shame could z. B. meet adulterers , perjurers , traitors , prisoners and both women who beat their husbands and men who were beaten. Even anti-pope John XVI. was subjected to such a disgraceful procession.
Donkey rides took place in the Orient as well as in European countries ; the last in Germany is from 1814.
The donkey ride was often given along with other punishments such as disgraceful masks and pillory .
The disgraceful donkey , also seat pillory or disgraceful chair, was a wooden frame that stood in a public square. The victim had to sit on it.
See also
literature
- Volker Plagemann: Eselsritt , in: Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte , Vol. 5, 1967, Sp. 1529–1536
swell
- ^ Sonja Steiner-Welz: The German City , Reinhard Welz Vermittler Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86656-319-3
- ^ Gerhard Köbler: Pictures from the German legal history , CH Beck Munich, 1988, ISBN 3-406-32880-6