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Since America is bringing back kings what other kind of stuff is on your medieval wishlist? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 178 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Guillotines.

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 46 points 5 months ago (3 children)

That wasn't really a thing in medieval times. I'm afraid an axe will have to do.

[–] CulturedLout@lemmy.ca 30 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Trebuchet?

[–] Tugboater203@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

Of course! It's the superior siege engine.

[–] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Imagine using this for execution

[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Especially when you could hold a vote, letting the people decide the method. One option: yeet the person from the trebuchet. The second: yeet something at them from a trebuchet!

Bring outchyo ~~dead~~ vote!!

[–] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

Yeet a person at this person from a trebuchet!

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

First used in ancient China around IV century BC.
We can get tripantium though, advanced evolution of it invented in XIII century France.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago

It was an instrument used by the burghers in bringing about the end of European feudal lordship, replacing the feudal mode of production with the capitalist one.

[–] KingOfSleep@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

It's okay, we're getting rid of history lessons too!

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 8 points 5 months ago

This might fit in mediaeval times, with the earliest possible recorded use in the 13th century, but it's certainly not well-known until the early modern period and most famous right on the border between early and late modern.

[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

And the billionaires will be the first to try it out!

[–] chtk@feddit.nl 3 points 5 months ago

It goes Yah

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Sic semper tyrranis