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sgt101 on July 12, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Two Cheers for the Middle Ages

I'm pretty sure that where it says "and jeering Jewish onlookers as in the Quentin Matsys Ecce Homo now in Madrid or the nasty hags at the Circumcision in a French manuscript of circa 1400. "

It means crucifixion, but a spell checker has intervened.

jonah on July 13, 2015 [–]

I think circumcision is correct.

Do a quick image search on those keywords and you get things like this:

http://hbpub.vo.llnwd.net/o16/video/olmk/holt/lipton/6-11.jp...

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