
When pigs and other animals ended up in court: animal trials in the Middle Ages
AI-generated content For centuries, in Europe, pigs, horses, donkeys and even insects were tried as people: arrested, defended by lawyers, judged and condemned “in the name of the law”. It is not macabre folklore nor a medieval oddity: those trials tell of a precise moment in our history, in which the law tried to bring order not only to nature, ...








