Medieval history

No. Educated medieval Europeans generally knew the Earth was a sphere. The flat-Earth story is largely a modern myth, popularised in the nineteenth century.

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No evidence shows the iron maiden existed in the Middle Ages. It appears in writing in the late 1700s, and surviving examples date from the 19th century.

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