Editing Hanging (section)

===Punishment for traitors===
Guido Kisch writes that the first instance he knows where a person in Germany was hanged up by his feet between two dogs until he died occurred about 1048, some 250 years earlier than the first attested Jewish case. This was a knight called Arnold, who had murdered his lord; the story is contained in [[Adam of Bremen]]'s ''History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen''.<ref>On Kisch's assessment, see for example: {{cite book|last=Kisch|first=Guido|year=1943|title=Historia Judaica: A Journal of Studies in Jewish History, Especially in Legal and Economic History of the Jews|volume=5–6|page=119|publisher=Historia Judaica}} On locus in Adam of Bremen's text, see {{cite book|author=Adam of Bremen|translator-last=Tschan|translator-first=Francis J. |translator-last2=Reuter|translator-first2=Timothy|page=120|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4cDtkTUF95IC&pg=PA120|title=History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=2013|isbn=978-0-231-50085-2|location=New York|access-date=14 March 2016|archive-date=13 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513010628/https://books.google.com/books?id=4cDtkTUF95IC&pg=PA120|url-status=live}}</ref> Another example of a non-Jew who suffered this punishment as a torture, in 1196 [[Richard, Count of Acerra]], was one of those executed by [[Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor|Henry VI]] in the suppression of the rebelling Sicilians:<ref>[http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/weblearning/MedievalHistoryTextCentre/ricsgermano.doc ''Ryccardi di Sancto Germano Notarii Chronicon''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040312011115/http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/weblearning/MedievalHistoryTextCentre/ricsgermano.doc |date=12 March 2004 }} trans. G. A. Loud</ref>

{{blockquote|He [Henry VI] held a general court in Capua, at which he ordered that the count first be drawn behind a horse through the squares of Capua, and then hanged alive head downwards. The latter was still alive after two days when a certain German jester called Leather-Bag [Follis], hoping to please the emperor, tied a large stone to his neck and shamefully put him to death}}

A couple of centuries earlier, in France in 991, a certain viscount Walter nominally owing his allegiance to the French King [[Hugh Capet]] chose, on instigation of his wife, to join the rebellion under [[Odo I, Count of Blois]]. When Odo found out he had to abandon [[Melun]] after all, Walter was duly hanged before the gates, whereas his wife, the fomentor of treason, was hanged by her feet, causing much merriment and jeers from Hugh's soldiers as her clothes fell downwards revealing her naked body, although it is not wholly clear if she died in that manner.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bradbury|first=Jim|year=2007|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mAgDwx4pS0QC&pg=PA78|pages=78–79|title=The Capetians: Kings of France 987–1328|publisher=Conitunuum Books|location=London|isbn=978-0-8264-3514-9|access-date=14 March 2016|archive-date=12 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512214932/https://books.google.com/books?id=mAgDwx4pS0QC&pg=PA78|url-status=live}}</ref>