PPT Slide
Jean Froissart (medieval historian)
“the penitents went about ,coming first out of Germany. They were men who did public penance and scourged themselves with whips of hard knotted leather with little iron spikes. Some made themselves bleed very badly between the shoulder blades and some foolish women had cloths ready to catch the blood and smear it on their eyes, saying it was miraculous blood . The object of this penance was to stop the mortality, for in that time at least a third of all the people in the world died”