ABSTRACT
Flogging Implements and Methods of the Middle Ages THERE is no form of punishment older than flagellation, 1 and although, in many instances, it cannot be held to rank as torture, there is always a risk where the whip is recognized as a method of inflicting judicial punishment, that it may develop into a species of torture, and that private individuals, taking the law into their own hands, may use the whip to such an extent that it is a danger to life. This may occur in many ways. It may, through the remarkable severity of the blows, the nature of the instrument used, the prolonged period of punishment, or the condition of the culprit at the time the whipping is administered, cause injury or death.
