Medieval Age

Question 1

Medieval Punishment

Answer 1

• Fines
  -Ducking Stool
  -mutilation
  -stocks and pillories
  -Scolds Bridle
  -drunkards barrel
  -Public Executions

Question 2

What were the aims of Medieval Punishment?

Answer 2

• Retribution
  -Humiliation
  -Deterrence

Question 3

How could you escape medieval punishment methods?

Answer 3

• Being pregnant
  -Kings approver
  -Abjure the Realm
  -Religious pilgrimage
  -claiming benefit of the clergy

Question 4

Why did they use these punishment methods?

Answer 4

Cheap, fast and it was a form of community justice.

Question 5

Medieval Law Enforcement

Answer 5

• Hue and Cry
  -Tithings
  -Sherriff and the posse
  -Constables
  -Coroner
  -Courts (Manor, JP’s Royal and Church)
  -Watchmen

Question 6

Causes of Crime

Answer 6

• poverty due to bad harvests (Lead to food shortages and rising prices) which led to starvation
  -Argument were causes of murder
  -Feudal System
  -War - due to feuds between nobles and knights.

Question 7

What were tithings

Answer 7

• Groups of 10-12 men
• shared responsibility, if one man commited an offence the others were responsible for him and had to ensure they brought him to justice otherwise this could have ended in consequences for the whole group.

Question 8

Hue and Cry

Answer 8

village alarm system
-If they ignored this, village would be fined by a court.

Question 9

Watchmen

Answer 9

-kept watch for crime during the night
-unpaid and usually drunk

Question 10

Sherriff

Answer 10

• track and imprison criminals and had a posse to catch the criminals.

Question 11

Coroner

Answer 11

• looked into unnatural deaths

Question 12

Watchmen

Answer 12

• kept watch for crime at night at town walls.
  -Unpaid and often got drunk.

Question 13

Crimes

Answer 13

-Homicide - 18 percent
-Sexual Crime
-Suicide
-Treason 0.3 percent
-Debt
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