We created a range of activities based around the simple comparison of the medieval context with their own lives. These included creative discussion: for example, in pairs they created their own school rules and then went on to expressing and enforcing those rules in words and pictures, They prioritized them; they created punishments which were appropriate in kind and degree. They considered varying options for publishing the rules and their associated punishments and rewards; for example, they considered expressing them through song, through jokes and through story as well as through written laws and, of course, through pictures. They thought about an audience that couldn’t read. Thus they became very close indeed to a personal understanding of the complex relationships within a society that used doom paintings to keep its people in check.