Medieval Punishments

Question 1

What did the church believe that punishment should do?

Answer 1

Punishment would reform the criminal

Question 2

What was one of the crimes that caused a death penalty?

Answer 2

Treason

Question 3

One or more things they did as punishment?

Answer 3

-having their nose
-their eyes pull out
-hand or feet cut off

Question 4

What was used for minor crimes ?

Answer 4

-Stocks
-Pillory
-Whipping

Question 5

What did the church set up for crimes? what for?

Answer 5

The church set up a church courts for people who are not following church rites.

Question 6

Facts about Outlaws?

Answer 6

They threatened their victims with arson, and extort money or goods in return for not burning homes down.

Outlaws regularly used violence, including threatening victims with a knife or simply killing the victim before robbing them.

Approximately 10% of murder victims were killed during robberies.

Question 7

What was outlaws favourite targets? Why?

Answer 7

There favourite targets was churches because they contained valuable ornaments made of silver and gold.

Question 8

What was a person called if they don’t attend court? What did they lose?

Answer 8

They were known as an outlaw. An outlaw no longer had protection of the law and could be killed by anyone as punishment.

Question 9

What was a immortal crime?

Answer 9

Such as sex outside marriage became a crime.

Question 10

What did the church not have the power to do in their court?

Answer 10

Impose the death penalty,so people learnt a passage of the Bible off by heart to claim ‘benefit of the clergy’