Lesson 3 C1000-1500

Question 1

Types of punishments

Answer 1

• Fines
• Stocks
• Maiming
• flogging (corporal)
• hanging ( capital)
• beheading

Question 2

Changes in types of punishments in Anglo - Saxon

Answer 2

• Fines and compensation were most common
• System of paying compensation to victims of crime = wergild
• Corporal punishment were fairly common but capital punishments were usually rare.

Question 3

Changes in types of punishments in Norman

Answer 3

• use of capital and corporal punishments rose dramatically
• Breaking forest laws was now harshly punished = blinding , castration

Changes = wergild system was stopped and fines paid to king

Minor crimes punished by fines, whipping, stocks.

Question 4

Changes in types of punishments in Later medieval

Answer 4

• Use of capital punishment gradually decreased although crimes against authority were still harshly punished
• Corporal punishments were widely used although juries did not convict neighbours unless they regularly offended
• fines became more common

Question 5

Why did punishments vary?

Answer 5

• They depended on class and gender, commoners treated differently to nobles, women treated differently to men.

Good example of this could be =
- Amount of wergild payable in Anglo - Saxons depended on victims social status, wergild for nobles = huge sum compared to serf

• For later medieval period, commoners hanged, nobles usually beheaded