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Classical Humanism vs. Romanticism: two ways of imagining pre-modern torture at the castle of Pöggstall (Austria)
2017
Revista da Faculdade de Direito
Pöggstall castle in Lower Austria has long been renowned to a national public for its ostensibly "authentic" medieval torture chamber located in an upper floor room of the 13th century keep. As recent investigations disclosed, the whole arrangement was not installed before the early 19th century when the Austrian Emperor Francis I owned the estate. The re-assessment of the interior betrays a "romantic" idea of pre-modern torture and punishment that imagined the "dark" Middle Ages as a
doi:10.22456/0104-6594.79081
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