What Was It Like to Be an Executioner in the Middle Ages?
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Issue #151
23 Apr 2020
“Not great” is the short answer to this macabre read of one of the most iconic occupations in the Middle Ages. Turns out, being an executioner was both a necessary and despised position in society, so much so occupants were often ordained to do it