- This is about European castles. For other uses see Dungeon (disambiguation)
A dungeon is a place where prisoners are kept. In the past, it used to double as the keep. A keep is a strong central Tower which is used as a dungeon or a fortress
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Etymology
The word dungeon was derived from the Old French donjon, which came from the Latin dominus, "lord". Old French was the Romance Dialect continuum spoken in territories which span roughly the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome.
However, in French the term donjon means "keep" (a form of tower), and the term oubliette or cachot (a form of prison) is a more appropriate translation of the English "dungeon". This word is a false friend. False friends (or faux amis) are pairs of Words in two Languages or Dialects (or letters in two alphabets that look and/or sound similar but differ
History
In its original medieval usage, the dungeon was the keep, the main tower of a castle which formed the final defensive position the garrison could retreat to when outer fortifications were overcome. A keep is a strong central Tower which is used as a dungeon or a fortress Towers are tall human-made Structures that are always taller than they are wide usually by a significant Margin. A castle is a defensive structure seen as one of the main symbols of the Middle Ages. Garrison (various spellings (from the French garnison, itself from the verb garnir, "to equip" is the collective term for a body of Troops Fortifications are Military Constructions and Buildings designed for defense in Warfare Humans have constructed defensive works for It was also a safe, if not comfortable, place to keep prisoners. Once more luxurious housing for the lord of the castle was constructed, the dungeon was used mainly for this purpose. Its meaning has evolved over time to also mean an underground prison or burial vault, typically built underneath a castle. A prison, penitentiary, or correctional facility is a place in which individuals are physically confined or interned and usually deprived of a range of A castle is a defensive structure seen as one of the main symbols of the Middle Ages.
In 1613, Anton Praetorius described the terrible situation of the prisoners in the dungeons in his book Gründlicher Bericht über Zauberei und Zauberer (Thorough Report about Wizardry and Wizards). Anton Praetorius (1560 &ndash 6 December 1613) was a German Calvinist Pastor who spoke out against the persecution of witches (
Features
Although many real dungeons are simply a single plain room with a heavy door or with access only from a hatchway or trapdoor in the floor of the room above, the use of dungeons for torture, along with their association to common human fears of being trapped underground, have made dungeons a powerful metaphor in a variety of contexts. A room, in Architecture, is any distinguishable space within a structure A trapdoor is a door set into a floor or ceiling (depending on what side of the door one is on Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental is intentionally Metaphor (from the Greek: μεταφορά - metaphora, meaning "transfer" is language that directly compares seemingly unrelated subjects
Modern Criminal Individuals who have built dungeons:
- John Jamelske, USA
- John Esposito(Criminal), USA [1]
- Josef Fritzl, Austria
- Marc_Dutroux, Belgium
- Wolfgang Priklopil, Austria
- Viktor Mokhov, Russia[2]
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