■ COMPARATIVE AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONS ■

1. Question

   Compare and contrast the status of unfree persons as illustrated in the first two documents. What light do the documents shed on differences of wealth and status within Europe’s unfree population?

2. Question

   How did town officials seek to shape the communities (Document 10-3, 10-4, and 10-5) they governed and the relationship between those communities and the outside world?

3. Question

   What light do the Summa Theologica (Document 10-6) and the story of the Virgin Mary, the monk, and his lover (Document 10-7) shed on the nature of medieval Christianity? What do they tell you about the diversity of religious experience in the Middle Ages?