Dog carrying
The dog wearing a medieval punishment , originally in Franconia and Swabia and later in the entire realm area for nobles was common in cases of breach of the peace had been convicted.
Before a death sentence was carried out on them, or as a substitute for a death penalty which was not carried out (for political reasons, for example), the convicts had to carry a dog from one district to the other. This was intended to symbolically indicate that they would have done better to stick with their business than to instigate the chaos of war without being called upon.
In 938 , King Otto I had the supporters of the rebellious Duke Eberhard of Bavaria and Emperor Friedrich I let the Rhineland Count Palatine Hermann von Stahleck and his followers carry dogs.
Other groups of the population suffered a similar punishment: clergymen were allowed to carry a code, peasants a plow wheel and servants a saddle .
In the collected works of Justus Lipsius , dog carrying is mentioned and referred to as the derivation for the word canaille .
literature
- Josef Theophil Demel: About the shameful punishment of carrying dogs. In: New archive for history, national studies, literature and art. Vol. 1, 1829, pp. 713-716 (digitized version ) .
- Bernd Schwenk: Carrying dogs. A legal practice in the Middle Ages . In: Historical yearbook . Vol. 110, 1990, pp. 289-308 ( online access , only for subscribers to DigiZeitschriften ).
- Stefan Weinfurter : Tears, submission and dog carrying. Medieval rituals in the dynamic process of social order. In: Dietrich Harth , Gerrit Jasper Schenk (eds.): Ritualdynamik. Cross-cultural studies on the theory and history of ritual action. Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-43-2 , pp. 117-137.
- Stefan Weinfurter: A mangy dog on your shoulders. The ritual of carrying dogs in the Middle Ages. In: Ders., Claus Ambos, Stephan Hotz, Gerald Schwedler (Hrsg.): The world of rituals. From antiquity to today. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-18701-6 , pp. 213-219.