The torture! In the book Vigiar e Punir Michel Foucault begins his narrative citing the forms of SUPLICATION.
The torture! In the book Vigiar e Punir Michel Foucault begins his narrative citing the forms of SUPLICATION. The torture for those who are unaware of this practice is a form of torture, which aims to make the condemned confess his crime, his sin and repent of them. During the Middle Ages this method consisted of making the "criminal" suffer so that his sins could be purged. Among the most common methods was the wheel - the condemned had his feet on the ground and hands in the middle of a large wheel, in this way the wheel was turned in order to stretch the whole body, not satisfied in some cases the bones of the legs and fathoms were breaks. According to Lyn Hunt's story in her book "The Birth of Human Rights", this was the last type of torture used by justice. At least officially. Foucault comments that throughout the Middle Ages justice itself realized that such measures were as cruel as the crimes committed by the condemned. That's why the meth...