2 ESO PESTE NEGRA (BIL)

1. Digging for the
Truth:
Medieval Town

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4. Instructions
For each of the following exhibits…
Finish the sentences.
I think it is a ____________ because
_______________________.
This tells me that life in medieval times
was not that horrible/horrible because
_____________________________.

8. Exhibit A: Guilds

11. Exhibit B: Unknown liquid

15. Exhibit C: disease?

16. Exhibit D: religious object

24. Exhibit E: Creepy dude

25. Exhibit F: Unknown tools

26. Rundown

27. Medieval towns were not that
horrible/horrible.
This is supported by exhibit___ .
This demonstrates that Medieval towns were
not that horrible/horrible because…
Exhibit__ shows (summarize the exhibit)...

31. • 1) Pigs could be a real danger
• In medieval times, pigs were kept as meat animals, often
in a type of extensive husbandry that included foraging in
forests and on common grounds. People thus had much
more contact with live pigs than we do today – this could
be dangerous, and even deadly.
• There were multiple accounts of pigs eating children.
From the 13th century, lawsuits could in theory be filed
against the porcine perpetrators – this usually resulted in
a death sentence for the pig. Such lawsuits were rare in
England but were more common in France, especially in
the region around Paris

32. • While these explanations go partway toward elucidating animal trials, none of
them fully clarify the practice. They hardly explain why citizens went to great
pains to create space for humans to judge animals for their actions. Correcting
hierarchical order or sending a stern message to animal owners could have
been accomplished much more easily and cheaply with summary execution.
What the trials strongly suggest is that pre-industrial citizens deemed the
animals among them worthy of human justice primarily because they had, like
humans, the free will to make basic choices.
• Judges routinely considered animals’ personal circumstances before making a
legal decision. Take the exonerated piglets in the opening anecdote. The judge
deemed them innocent not only on technical grounds (no witnesses came forth
to confirm that the piglets attacked), but also because the pigs were immature,
and thus poorly positioned to make clear choices. Furthermore, they were raised
by a rogue mother, he indicated, and thus unable to internalize the proper codes
of conduct for village-dwelling piglets.