Camels in early medieval western Europe: beasts of burden+tools of humiliation — new post :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/05/camels-in-early-medieval-western-europe.html …pic.twitter.com/DT10rwW5a4
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The deposed Byzantine emperor Andronicus I Comnenus was also humiliated by being strapped to a camel in AD 1185...pic.twitter.com/XynDnRty8E
A naked man riding a camel, c. 1300, Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 151 f.26v: http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/s/v9j3f9 …pic.twitter.com/NJEG31YI6o
Camels used by Visigothic king Wamba to humiliate the rebellious Duke Paul in AD 673, according to Julian of Toldeo: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/05/camels-in-early-medieval-western-europe.html …pic.twitter.com/wFKooYx1L8
The Barberini diptych—6thC Byzantine ivory of an emperor+poss once owned by Brunhilda, d.613 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barberini_ivory …pic.twitter.com/C8d6DfDSy6
A 6thC bronze weight bearing an imitation of the central panel of the Barberini ivory: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BCMA_Imitation_Barberini_ivory.jpg …pic.twitter.com/zclXKXbghj
Ouch! I don't recall exactly what Brunhilda was supposed to have done, but this does seem a bit over the top.l
This has some details: https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/736662270235807744 … But yes, brutal treatment :(
Poor queen Brunhilde, what an agonising death to inflict. Date? Victors in that triumph?
@caitlinrgreen
613 and King Chlothar II, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunhilda_of_Austrasia … :)
Thank you, I will look.
and, on this occasion, blamed by Chlothar II for the death of no less than ten kings.
horrendous execution, true. But she did her own killing and mutilating as queen.
Sheesh! I guess that prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishments weren't in place yet.
Ghastly.
Sheesh! They really had it in for her.
ooer sounds terrible 
wow. Brutal
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