Bowel out
The bowing refers to the forcible pulling out of the intestines of a delinquent from the abdominal cavity , as it is described in the legend of the saints of Erasmus of Antioch († 303). Insofar as the medieval and early modern sources of German law are concerned, bowel removal appeared as a separate punishment in peasant wisdom .
In English law, guts were practiced as part of a type of execution carried out for high treason ( hanging, eviscerating, and quartering ).
literature
- Rudolf His : The criminal law of the German Middle Ages . Volume 1: The crimes and their consequences in general . Weicher, Leipzig 1920 (reprint: Scientia, Aalen 1964).
- Bernhard Rehfeldt: Death Penalties and Conversion History. On the legal and religious history of Germanic execution customs . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1942 (at the same time: München, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1941), (reprint: Keip, Goldbach 1995).
- Ekkehard Kaufmann , Bernd Schildt: Digesting . In: Albrecht Cordes , Heiner Lück , Dieter Werkmüller , Ruth Schmidt-Wiegand (eds.): Concise dictionary on German legal history . Volume 1: Aachen - Spiritual Bank . 2nd completely revised and expanded edition. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-503-07912-4 , Sp. 366-367.
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