Crime

• When was the Anglo-Saxon Period

  1000-1066
• When was the Norman Period?

  1066-1154
• When was the later Middle Ages?

  1154 to 1500
• What types of Crimes where committed in the Anglo-Saxon Period?

  Crimes against person

  Crimes against property

  Crimes against authority
• Examples of Crime against a Person?

  Murder

  Assault

  Rape

  Public disorder
• Examples of Crime against Property

  Stealing

  Arson

  Counterfeiting Coins
• Examples of Crimes against Authority

  Treason

  Rebellion

  Heresy
• New Crimes During the Norman Period?

  Mudrum Fine

  Forest Laws

  Poaching

  Trespassing
• What was the Murdrum fine?

  Punishment of an Anglo-Saxon killing a Norman

  If criminals not caught the whole Hundred paid a fine to the King
• When where the Forest Laws created?

  1067
• What were the Forest Laws?

  King privatised/Enclosed Royal forest which was 30% of England

  Created the Crime of Poaching which was hunting or gathering resources from the Royal Forests

  Seen as a social crime as it was committed out of desperation to stop starvation
• What happened to all crimes from the Anglo-Saxon period?

  They continued

  Example of continuity
• Examples of Crime in Later Middle Ages?

  Asking for higher wages

  Heresy
• How did asking for a higher wage turn into a crime?

  Statue of Labourers

  After the Black Death lack of workers so labourers wanted to ask for a higher wage as there was less available

  To stop peasants from becoming wealthier it was made a crime
• What was the new Heresy Laws?

  Made Disagreeing with the Church a Crime