Torture was frequently employed during the Middle Ages to punish criminals and extract confessions. Hundreds of devices were used including The Rack and The Chair.
Even though thousands died in unimaginably painful ways, torture wasn’t as frequent as most of us believe. During the Inquisition only 1 or 2 percent of the heretics or criminals were subject to long periods of torture – the rest were simply incarcerated or punished in other ways.
