Flagellants

Multiple Choice

Flagellants

A) was the term used to describe the aristocratic opponents of rebelling serfs.
B) were Jews who beat themselves in an effort to avoid harsher abuse by Christians.
C) were a new order of friars which were established in France by Joan of Arc.
D) were Christian fanatics who physically scourged themselves during the Black Death.
E) were hereditary slaves in fifteenth-century Italy.