Engliah historians were people indifferent to the execution of Walter Raleigh, in Tower Hill?
46-50
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Hard to know.
Executions were common and public in those days, attracting large but mostly only local audiences; but we might not really how widespread the knowledge of his execution and the reasons for it was, and the reactions to it.
News travelled only slowly and in fragmentary ways, in the 17C; there were no significant mechanisms for disseminating what we might call "public opinion".
So if many people were indifferent, they probably were so though genuine ignorance, not political opinion or sympathy.
Executions were common and public in those days, attracting large but mostly only local audiences; but we might not really how widespread the knowledge of his execution and the reasons for it was, and the reactions to it.
News travelled only slowly and in fragmentary ways, in the 17C; there were no significant mechanisms for disseminating what we might call "public opinion".
So if many people were indifferent, they probably were so though genuine ignorance, not political opinion or sympathy.