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Crime And Punishment - Anglo Saxons And Normans Flashcards

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Crime
Give 3 categories for crime in Anglo Saxon England

A

Crimes against the person
Crimes against property
Crimes against authority

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Crime
Give 3 examples of crimes against the person (in Anglo Saxon England)

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Assault
Murder
Slander (lying in public to damage someone)

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Crime
Give 3 examples of crimes against property

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Arson
Petty theft
Poaching

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Crime
Give 3 examples of crimes against authority

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Treason
Not paying church tithe / breaking church rules during religious festival
Rebellion
Disrupting the king’s peace (cause fights by arguing)

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Crime
Give 2 examples of moral crimes and state what a moral crime is

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Adultery and having a relationship with a nun
Not illegal but bad by societal standards

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Crime
What is a social crime and give 2 examples

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A crimes which is illegal but socially accepted
Find two examples

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Society
What was the social structure of Anglo Saxon England - give the 4 groups in it

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King
Nobles
Freemen
Serfs

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Society
How many kingdoms existed in Anglo Saxon England?

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5 - ludenwic was London

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Society
What was the religion of Anglo Saxon society

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Catholicism

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Society
True or false: society was mainly rural

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True

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Society
Was Anglo Saxon population big or small?

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Small

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Society
Between which centuries do Anglo Saxon kings gain authority

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800s and 900s

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Society
What term describes the idea that the king has a duty to keep care of law and order

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King’s peace

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Society
Which ‘great’ king unified/centralised the laws of England

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Alfred the Great

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When did Alfred the Great introduce the Wergild?

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871 - 899

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Punishment
What were the 3 main purposes of Anglo Saxon punishment - what are the 7 purposes of punishment?

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Deterrent + retribution + revenge
7 aims:
rehabilitation
Reconciliation
Reform
Removal

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Punishment
What is corporal punishment?

A

Maiming

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Punishment
What is capital punishment?

A

Death

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Punishment
What was the blood feud?

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Victim takes revenge for a crime by inflicting equal suffering on an attacker

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Punishment
What replaced the blood feud?

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Wergild

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Punishment
What was the wergild?

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A fine paid as compensation for the loss of life used to stop blood feud

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Punishment
What would murder, assault and public disorder be punished with

A

Wergild
Maiming
Stocks or pillory.
Respectively

23
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Punishment
True or false: petty theft would be punished with the stocks or pillory?

A

True

24
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Punishment
True or false: arson is punished with capital punishment

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True - hanging

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Punishment
True or false: all 3 main crimes against the authority were punished with capital punishment

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True

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Punishment
Summarise Anglo Saxon punishment:
Lesser crimes were punished with _____punishment
Serious crimes were deemed so if they damaged the property of the _____ classes

A

Corporal
Ruling

TTRQS History (19 decks)

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