Impalement. Engraving after a woodcut in Sebastian Münster's "Cosmographia universalis", published in Basel in 1552. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

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