Crime And Punishment - Anglo Saxons And Normans

Question 1

Crime
Give 3 categories for crime in Anglo Saxon England

Answer 1

Crimes against the person
Crimes against property
Crimes against authority

Question 2

Crime
Give 3 examples of crimes against the person (in Anglo Saxon England)

Answer 2

Assault
Murder
Slander (lying in public to damage someone)

Question 3

Crime
Give 3 examples of crimes against property

Answer 3

Arson
Petty theft
Poaching

Question 4

Crime
Give 3 examples of crimes against authority

Answer 4

Treason
Not paying church tithe / breaking church rules during religious festival
Rebellion
Disrupting the king’s peace (cause fights by arguing)

Question 5

Crime
Give 2 examples of moral crimes and state what a moral crime is

Answer 5

Adultery and having a relationship with a nun
Not illegal but bad by societal standards

Question 6

Crime
What is a social crime and give 2 examples

Answer 6

A crimes which is illegal but socially accepted
Find two examples

Question 7

Society
What was the social structure of Anglo Saxon England - give the 4 groups in it

Answer 7

King
Nobles
Freemen
Serfs

Question 8

Society
How many kingdoms existed in Anglo Saxon England?

Answer 8

5 - ludenwic was London

Question 9

Society
What was the religion of Anglo Saxon society

Answer 9

Catholicism

Question 10

Society
True or false: society was mainly rural

Answer 10

True

Question 11

Society
Was Anglo Saxon population big or small?

Answer 11

Small

Question 12

Society
Between which centuries do Anglo Saxon kings gain authority

Answer 12

800s and 900s

Question 13

Society
What term describes the idea that the king has a duty to keep care of law and order

Answer 13

King’s peace

Question 14

Society
Which ‘great’ king unified/centralised the laws of England

Answer 14

Alfred the Great

Question 15

When did Alfred the Great introduce the Wergild?

Answer 15

871 - 899

Question 16

Punishment
What were the 3 main purposes of Anglo Saxon punishment - what are the 7 purposes of punishment?

Answer 16

Deterrent + retribution + revenge
7 aims:
rehabilitation
Reconciliation
Reform
Removal

Question 17

Punishment
What is corporal punishment?

Answer 17

Maiming

Question 18

Punishment
What is capital punishment?

Answer 18

Death

Question 19

Punishment
What was the blood feud?

Answer 19

Victim takes revenge for a crime by inflicting equal suffering on an attacker

Question 20

Punishment
What replaced the blood feud?

Answer 20

Wergild

Question 21

Punishment
What was the wergild?

Answer 21

A fine paid as compensation for the loss of life used to stop blood feud

Question 22

Punishment
What would murder, assault and public disorder be punished with

Answer 22

Wergild
Maiming
Stocks or pillory.
Respectively

Question 23

Punishment
True or false: petty theft would be punished with the stocks or pillory?

Answer 23

True

Question 24

Punishment
True or false: arson is punished with capital punishment

Answer 24

True - hanging

Question 25

Punishment
True or false: all 3 main crimes against the authority were punished with capital punishment

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Punishment
Summarise Anglo Saxon punishment:
Lesser crimes were punished with _____punishment
Serious crimes were deemed so if they damaged the property of the _____ classes

Answer 26

Corporal
Ruling