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Group Discussion Questions (All Questions are to be Answered)

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Group Discussion Questions (All Questions are to be Answered)

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1. Do you think that using trial by ordeal was fair? Why or why not? (Question taken from Oxford Big Ideas p. 255).

2. What did society understand God’s role in trials by ordeal to be?
- Could this have influenced their belief that these trials were a fair or just way to prove one’s innocence?

3. Sometimes, compurgators (people who swore oaths on the character of the accused person) were used by people being accused of a crime to support their own oaths in trials. The more compurgators of a good reputation that the accused had to speak on their behalf, the more likely the accused person was of being found innocent of a crime.
- Would swearing an oath to God have been enough for people of the lower classes?
- Would the poor have had access to the same people of good reputation to swear on their behalf?
- How would this have affected the type of trial available to them?

4. Look at Source 2 in your textbooks on page 254 (also included on this padlet page).
- What does the ‘scold’s bridle’ suggest about attitudes towards women in medieval Europe? Were they respected?
- What indicates this attitude in the source and its caption?

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