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.

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Flagellants were Christian fanatics who believed that the Black Death was God's punishment and they physically scourged themselves as a form of penance.