What Is Mortification of the Flesh?

In the in the middle ages, there arose these movements that were sort of organized and highly devoted to the flagulant practice. And these were sometimes condemned and seen as trouble makers by the church authorities. But another thing we should, of course, say is that the the threats represented by these flagulent groups, it was not just a threat to the authority of the church structure. They were also doing very bad things in some cases, like, there were cases where flagelant groups were involved in the persecution of minority groups within the communities,. That's where we get to another in a huge area that comes out of te religious response to the black death, including the persecution of jewish