{"id":136507,"date":"2025-05-27T17:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T17:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/136507\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T17:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T17:49:10","slug":"medieval-woman-was-executed-and-displayed-on-london-riverbank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/136507\/","title":{"rendered":"Medieval woman was executed and displayed on London riverbank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SEI_253330408.jpg\"   loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2481988\" data-caption=\"The shore of the river Thames in London, close to where the woman\u2019s remains were found\" data-credit=\"Crispin Hughes\/Alamy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">The shore of the river Thames in London, close to where the woman\u2019s remains were found<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Crispin Hughes\/Alamy<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A woman was tortured for days, killed and then put on display at the side of the river Thames in central London around 1200 years ago. The case is thought to be one of the only examples of a judicial execution of a woman in medieval England in the archaeological record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t the story of one blow, and it\u2019s not clandestine,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropology.utoronto.ca\/people\/directories\/all-faculty\/madeleine-mant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madeleine Mant<\/a> at the University of Toronto in Canada. \u201cIt\u2019s the story of purposeful violence, and\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The shore of the river Thames in London, close to where the woman\u2019s remains were found Crispin Hughes\/Alamy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[2397,748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-136507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-archaeology","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114581062596472010","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}