> This is an unfortunate piece of propaganda popularized by foes of the Church
As is/was at least in part, with the Inquisition's tools:
As is/was at least in part, with the Inquisition's tools:
> Despite its reputation as a medieval instrument of torture, there is no evidence of the existence of iron maidens before the 19th century.
I take his point to be precisely that the iron maiden wasn't really used.