Same fair trials, same punishmentsNowadays, we either treat animals like uniquely barbaric entities that must be put down and tortured just for the fun of it, or as some unique angels that can do no wrong (and if they do harm, it's entirely our fault).
>>18425226Medieval commoners would throw cats in bonfires for fun.
why is piggy crying
>>18425239source?
>>18425247https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_burning
>>18425241>oink, your oinkness, I did not eat those oats it was the fat monk I tell you>lies! I saw the greedy pig eat all dem fine oats with my own eyes!And everybody believed the lying monk who ate all the oats because he was a man of god and pig was just a pig.
>>18425259easily debunkedthe only records that could be verified happened after the medieval period>but le pope gregoryhe never said kill cats, just condemned a satanic cult
>>18425269useful article about this: https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/11/05/were-cats-really-killed-en-masse-during-the-middle-ages/
>>18425259>Other historians includingRoger ChartierandHarold Mahhave criticized Darnton's interpretation, citing issues with his methodology and questionable interpretations of primary sources
>>18425270Troon Blogspot (literally)
>>18425295not an argumenttrans people have more respect for european catholic medieval history than white supremacist protestants
>Bear baiting>Fox tossing>Cockfighting.>Cat burning.>Trying animals as heretics n shit.Mkay
There was a major bear pit near Shakespeare’s Globe Theater and he mentions bear baiting several times in his plays. It wasn’t about killing the bear (game over) but siccing a bunch of dogs on a bear and watching the dogs get wailed on. Rat pits with terriers were a low budget version. I’d look to modern undeveloped countries to get a sense of how Europeans treated animals—a really wide spectrum from reverence to cruelty.
>>18425226What were the trials actually like? Genuine question, did they expect it to talk and give testimony?
>>18425226a lot of the superstitions we associate with the middle ages were strictly post-black death phenomenons in the 14th and 15th centuriesthey are in the later tail end of the medieval period, same time as the renaissance and just happened to occur right before the fall of constantinople
>>18425241>>18425241>sow and her piglets being tried for the murder of a child. The trial allegedly took place in 1457, the mother being found guilty and the piglets acquitted.
>>18425373https://youtube.com/shorts/HgzgLoH_4zU
