Tag: Violences

Fear is a powerful emotion. It’s one of our greatest motivators as a species; the fear of death, the fear of loss, the fear of losing control. People respond to fear in any number of different ways, whether by becoming defiant or by shutting down into silence. We might tremble, we might scr...

The 1500s and 1600s in England and Europe were anything but gentle times. People were routinely burned at the stake for religious heresy, a practice that began in the twelfth century and continued through 1612. Torture was an official instrument of the English government until 1640. The famous Tower...