Crime and punishment-The Anglo-Saxons, Normans, Later Middle Age and Medieval Church
Cards (99)
- Where did the vast majority of the the population live in anglo-Saxon times?
- Who was king from 978 to 1016
- What was the term for the king's duty to ensure law and order
- What did the king provide to nobles in exchange for their support?
- What was the crime of betraying the king or helping his enemies?
- What type of crime grew more common in growing towns?
- What was the time for a whole community being responsible for upholding the law?
- Who is the official who carried out decisions made by local courts
- What powerful entity separate from the King also held a great influence over ideas about crime
- What were crimes that cause no physical harm violated ideas about acceptable behaviour?
- What areas were shires divided into?
- What did the term shire reeve later evolve into?
- What was the name of the shouting when somebody witnessed a crime meant to call or who had it to capture the suspects?
- how might somebody prove their innocence
- What was the name for inflicting pain on the accused in order to let God judge their guilt or innocence?
- What punishment was advised by the church for petty theft?
- What crimes are punishable by execution?
- What was the name of a fine paid to the murdered victims family?
- What was the term for a punishment that is meant to discourage other people from committing a crime
- What devices are used to secure people in a public place where they could be humiliated?
- Who conquered England in 1066
- Why did punishments became harsher under the Normans?
- What did this new king built all of England?
- What new system of social organisation divided society into ranks with everybody only loyalty and services to those above them?
- What was the lowest rank in this system meaning people who were legally bound to work for their lord and could not leave their land?
- What was the new fine to be paid by a whole community of a murder of a normal person was not caught
- What did Norman Kingstown, large areas of common land into?
- What's new crime had to be created meaning that hunting animals on the Kingsland was that illegal?
- What was the time for new crimes that are technically illegal but widely considered acceptable
- What were men or women who avoided trial of punishment and ran away called
- To whom were find paid under the Normans, instead of being paid to victims and their families
- What new form of trial by ordeal was introduced by the Normans
- What new law making body was developed during the late Middle Ages?
- What is greater disaster hit England and 1348, killing so many people that peasants were able to demand higher wages in the following years?
- What's new law set a maximum wage and forbade peasants from moving to find work?
- What's new crime was created to criminalise church reformers?
- What's new punishment was invented for these criminals?
- Into what areas were town subdivided into in the late Middle Ages
- From the 14th century onwards, what title was given to local wealthy men appointed by the King to enforce the law
- What is horrific new punishment was introduced for the crime of high treason