Anglo-Saxon CP

Question 1

anglo-saxon crimes

Answer 1

ploughing other's land
murder
theft
insulting
inciting fights
getting drunk
trespassing

Question 2

continuity of anglo-saxon crimes after 1066

Answer 2

theft

poaching

Question 3

anglo-saxon law enforcement

Answer 3

tithing -> every man over 12 joined a group of 10 men who kept each other out of trouble
hue + cry -> someone screams out if there’s been a crime, people join a group to catch criminal, if you don’t join you get fined

Question 4

anglo-saxon justice

Answer 4

trial by ordeal -> god decides

trial by jury -> local villagers swear an oath (men)

Question 5

anglo-saxon punishments

Answer 5

mutilation + stocks/pillory + whipping -> corporal
hanging -> capital
wergild
blood feud

Question 6

explain trial by hot water (ordeal)

Answer 6

look for object in hot water

burn heals -> not guilty

Question 7

explain trial by cold water (ordeal)

Answer 7

person lowered into river

sank -> not guilty

Question 8

explain trial by hot iron (ordeal)

Answer 8

taken by women
hold hot iron and walk 3 metres/paces
after 3 days if wound heals -> not guilty

Question 9

explain trial by blessed bread (ordeal)

Answer 9

taken by priests
eat dry bread with no water
don’t cough -> not guilty

Question 10

what was trial by ordeal designed for?

Answer 10

to decide if someone was innocent or guilty of courts couldn’t decide

Question 11

what was the jury oath called?

Answer 11

compurgation

Question 12

describe shire courts

Answer 12

met twice a year
dealt with serious crimes e.g. murder
all landowners had to attend
nobles acted as judges

Question 13

describe hundred courts

Answer 13

dealt with less serious crimes e.g. fights
occurred every month
all freemen had to attend -> they would join a tithing

Question 14

describe private courts

Answer 14

held in local villages
landowners acted as judges
dealt with local crimes e.g. people not doing enough work

Question 15

what’s an outlaw?

Answer 15

anyone who didn’t attend court

could be killed by anyone without the offender getting punished

Question 16

what was the blood feud?

Answer 16

someone kills someone
so the victim’s family kills the criminal
it was a constant cycle of murders and got out of control
was abolished

Question 17

what replaced the blood feud?

Answer 17

wergild
each body part had a monetary value
criminal paid victim/their family compensation

Question 18

continuity in anglo-saxon law enforcement

Answer 18

hue + cry
effective as villages were small
everyone knew everyone

Question 19

continuity in anglo-saxon justice

Answer 19

most laws made by their kings were kept

Question 20

continuity in anglo-saxon punishments

Answer 20

capital and corporal kept

Question 21

changes in crime after 1066

Answer 21

forest laws
murdrum
social crime -> pretending you don’t see a crime against the french

Question 22

changes in law enforcement after 1066

Answer 22

people turned a blind-eye when forest laws were broken

they disliked the king

Question 23

changes in justice after 1066

Answer 23

norman-french used to write laws
court records kept in latin
women used to be treated equally -> normans made laws tougher on women