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The Strangest Courtrooms: Animal Trials in Medieval Europe — History is Now Magazine, Podcasts, Blog and Books | Modern International and American history

Trial of a sow and pigs at Lavegny. The Rationale Behind the Madness The notion of arraigning a barn swallow or bovine may seem utterly ludicrous today, but to medieval minds steeped in religious doctrine and folklore, it was a perfectly reasonable concept. The theological underpinning was that animals, having been granted a place in […]