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COMPARATIVE AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

  1. Question

    Consider the account of the English Peasants’ Revolt (Document 11-3) and The Social Order. (Document 11-4) What light do they shed on social change and continuity in late medieval Europe?

  2. Question

    What do the writings of Boccaccio (Document 11-1) and di Tura (Document 11-2) reveal about the range of reactions to the devastation produced by the Black Death?

  3. Question

    What do Catherine (Document 11-5) and Joan (Document 11-6) have in common? What kind of power did they have, and how did they use it?