Middle Ages
Source questions
2011
b) Study Source C.
How useful is Source C as evidence about what people understood about disease in the
eleventh century? Use the source and your own knowledge to explain your answer. [4]
2010
b) Study Source C.
What can you learn from this source about the development of medicine in the early
Middle Ages? Use the source and your own knowledge to explain your answer. [4]
2009
(a) Study Sources A and B
How similar are the ideas about disease in these two sources? Use the sources and
your own knowledge to explain your answer.
[5]
2008
SOURCE B
SOURCE C
(b) Study Sources B and C
Do these two sources give similar or different impressions of medicine in the Middle Ages?
Use the sources and your knowledge to explain your answer.
[5]
2005
(b) Study Sources A and B
How far do these sources prove that medicine had made no progress between 400BC and
1060AD? Use the sources and your knowledge to explain your answer.
[6]
SOURCE C
A drawing of a doctor during the plague in the
fourteenth century. The ‘beak’ was filled with
sweet smelling substances.
SOURCE D
A group of flagellants whipping themselves during the plague in the
fourteenth century
(c) Study Sources C and D
Are you surprised that people behaved in these ways during the plague of the
fourteenth century? Use the sources and your knowledge to explain your answer.
[5]
2004
SOURCE A
A medieval painting
(a) Study Source A
Why was the treatment shown in Source A used in the Middle Ages? Use the source
your knowledge to explain your answer.
[5]
2002
SOURCE A
A medieval painting of Galen and Hippocrates
(a) Study Source A
Are you surprised that a picture of Galen and Hippocrates was painted in the
Middle Ages? Use the source and your knowledge to explain your answer.
[5]
2000
(b) Study Source B
Were John of Burgundy’s ideas about the causes of disease new? Explain your answer.
[5]
SOURCE C
(c) Study Source C
Why has this fourteenth century artist shown the Black Death in this way? Explain
your answer.
[4]