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2. Ducking stool - Wikipedia

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   Ducking stools or cucking stools were chairs formerly used for punishment of disorderly women, scolds, and dishonest tradesmen in medieval Europe [1] and elsewhere at later times. [2] The ducking-stool was a form of wymen pine, or "women's punishment", as referred to in Langland's Piers Plowman (1378).

3. History of the chair - Wikipedia

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4. Women in the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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   Women were healers and engaged in medical practices. In 12th-century Salerno, Italy, Trota wrote one of the Trotula texts on diseases of women. [30] Her text, Treatments for Women, addressed events in childbirth that called for medical attention. The book was a compilation of three original texts and quickly became the basis for the medical ...

5. Litter (vehicle) - Wikipedia

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   A rococo sedan chair arrives at a garden party; 19th-century oil painting by G. Borgelli. By the mid-17th century, sedans for hire had become a common mode of transportation. London had "chairs" available for hire in 1634, each assigned a number and the chairmen licensed because the operation was a monopoly of a courtier of King Charles I.

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7. Common scold - Wikipedia

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   Most punished for scolding were women, though men could be found to be scolds. The offence, which carried across in the English colonisation of the Americas , was punished by fines and public humiliation: dunking (being arm-fastened into a chair and dunked into a river or pond); parading through the street; being put in the scold's bridle ...