pillory
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.5|Daniel Defoe in the Pillory (Eyre Crowe, 1862) thumb|upright|The 17th-century perjurer Titus Oates in a pillory
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Pillory (PSF).png
- Said to be same as
- stocks
- Has use
- physical violence
Show 4 more facts
- Commons category
- Pillories
- Commons gallery
- Pillory
- topic's main category
- Category:Pillories
- time period
- Middle Ages
via Wikidata · CC0
~12 min read
Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Description
- Uses <span class="anchor" id="poteau"></span>
- Similar humiliation devices
- Notable cases
- Legacy
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Citations
- General and cited references
- External links
thumb|upright=1.5|Daniel Defoe in the Pillory (Eyre Crowe, 1862) thumb|upright|The 17th-century perjurer Titus Oates in a pillory
The pillory is a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, used during the medieval and renaissance periods for punishment by public humiliation and often further physical abuse. The pillory is related to the stocks.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pillory” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.