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The English Standard Version of Esther 5:14 describes this as hanging, [52] whereas The New International Reader's version opts for impalement. [53] The Assyriologist Paul Haupt opts for impalement in his 1908 essay "Critical notes on Esther", [54] while Benjamin Shaw has an extended discussion of the topic on the website ligonier.org from 2012 ...
Impalement in heraldry: on the dexter side of the escutcheon, the position of greatest honour, are placed the arms of the husband (baron), with the paternal arms of the wife (femme) on the sinister. Impalement is a heraldic practice in which two coats of arms are combined in one shield to denote a union.
The quadrivium was the upper division of medieval educational provision in the liberal arts, which comprised arithmetic (number in the abstract), geometry (number in space), music (number in time), and astronomy (number in space and time).
European science in the Middle Ages comprised the study of nature, mathematics and natural philosophy in medieval Europe. Following the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the decline in knowledge of Greek, Christian Western Europe was cut off from an important source of ancient learning.
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (ODMA) is a four-volume dictionary of the Middle Ages published by Oxford University Press. It contains over 5,000 entries concerning European history and culture from AD 500 to 1500 as well as topics related to the Byzantine Empire , Islamic history , and medieval Asia . [ 1 ]
In medieval fortification, a trou de loup (French for "wolf hole"; plural trous de loup, also commonly referred to as a tiger pit in the East) was a type of booby trap or defensive obstacle. Each trou de loup consisted of a conical pit about 2 m (6 ft 7 in) deep and 1.2 to 2 m (3 ft 11 in to 6 ft 7 in) wide at the top.
In his De Cruce (Antwerp 1594), p. 10 Justus Lipsius explained the two forms of what he called the crux simplex.. The term crux simplex was invented by Justus Lipsius (1547–1606) to indicate a plain transom-less wooden stake used for executing either by affixing the victim to it or by impaling him with it (Simplex [...] voco, cum in uno simplicique ligno fit affixio, aut infixio).
Impalement is perforating the body with a long object as a method of torture or execution Impalement or impaled may refer to: Penetrating trauma caused by a long object; Impaled (illusion), a magic trick simulating impalement; Impaled (band), American death metal band; Impalement arts, a group of performing arts that includes knife throwing