Social identities
Choose a prompt ‘Compare the distribution of power in Medieval Europe amongst people with different social identities or positions (from 900-1450 or so).
Choose 2 or more social identities (Christian clergy, Christian laypeople, heretics, pagans, Jews, Muslims, upper class, lower class, male, female) and compare them around how much power and what kind of power each was perceived as having.
(A) would be one or more groups with one kind of social identity and (B) would be a different one or more groups with other social identities.
Your main statement might consider the larger context of beliefs and attitudes about power during the High-Late Middle Ages, asking how these beliefs or attitudes impacted power inequalities or struggles.”
