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Crime And Punishment-medieval Flashcards

1
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when was the medieval period?

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1250-1500

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2
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What religion were they?

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Roman catholic

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3
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God was represented by who on earth?

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The king

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4
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The kings people were in what 3 groups?

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  • The clergy (church)
  • Lords
  • Everyone else
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5
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Land was divided into what?and owned by?

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Counties and was owned by Lords

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6
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Counties divided into what?

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Hundreds

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7
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Hundreds divided into?

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Manors and parishes

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8
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Land was divided into what?

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Strips for peasants

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9
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What was in 1381?

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The Peasants Revolt

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10
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Work was done with?

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Tools and hands

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11
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Who were not free to do what they wanted?

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Peasants

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12
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Animals were kept where at night?why

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Inside because they were very valuable

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13
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What structured Medieval peoples lives?

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Church calender

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14
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Ale was drunk because?

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Water was too dirty

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15
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Percentage of homocide in 1300-1348

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18%

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16
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Percentage of robbery in 1300-1348

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9.5%

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17
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Percentage of burglary in 1300-1348

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24%

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18
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Percentage of theft in 1300-1348

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40%

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19
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What was classed as murder?

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Suicide

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20
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Stealing more than what amount was classed as a fellony?

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12D

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21
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Two examples of petty crimes

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Dept, minor harm to person or property

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22
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What was to be reported to the coroner, then the king?

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Sudden death

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23
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Over what amount of murders started from arguments?

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50% usually because of hunger

24
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Examples of new crimes in 1350-1400

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Scolding, vagrancy, treason

25
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Who fought each other with their own personal armies?

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Lords

26
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Name one crime from the 1400s and what it was

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Outlaws, feared gang, usually in their state because they avoided court, ambushed travellers

27
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What did the church deal with?

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Sins such as gambling and moral crimes like heresy and spreading false beliefs

28
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Three ways to avoid the death penalty

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  • have powerful friends
  • 40days and nights in church and this confess sins to coroner
  • join the kings army
  • get pregnant
  • become kings approver
  • benefit of the clergy
29
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Name all 4 law enforcers

A

Sheriff
Chief Constable of the Hundred
Parish Constable
People

30
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Who was the kings agent in each county

A

Sheriff

31
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Who gathered a posse when a crime was discovered?

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Sheriff

32
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How many chief constables of the hundred were appointed each year?

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2

33
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Who ensured men aged 15-60 were equipped with tools for the army?

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Chief constable of the hundred

34
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How many parish constables were appointed each year?

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1

35
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When did the parish constables ensure every man practiced archery every sunday?

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1363

36
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What role did the people have in law enforcement?

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Tithings of 10 men

The hue and cry

37
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What 3 things did towns have that the countryside did not in terms of law enforcement ?

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Towns had

  • watchmen
  • borough courts
  • church courts
38
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What was similar to hundred courts but had no Lords

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Borough courts

39
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One example of a church court law

A

Sex outside marridge

40
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Name the 4 courts and their purposes

A

Royal court-fellonies
Quarter assizes-royal judges from London visit county 2/3x per year for fellonies
Justices of the peace-petty crimes in each county
Manor courts-local crimes

41
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When was the quarter assizes created?

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1293

42
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When were quarter sessions introduced.

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1388

43
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Who were manor courts ran by

A

Lords

44
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When were watchmen introduced

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1285

45
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4 main death penalties

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Hanging
Hanging, drawing and quartering
Burned alive
Local variations on hanging

46
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two reasons to be hanged

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Murder or 12D+ worth of goods

47
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Reason to be hanged, drawn and quartered

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High treason, counterfeit 💰

48
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Two reasons to be burned alive

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Petty treason, heresy

49
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Eg of a local variation on hanging

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Thrown of the white cliffs of dover

50
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3 main punishments

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Fines
Public humiliation
Imprisonment

51
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Three examples of public humiliation

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Cucking stool
Pillory
Publicly Confessing sins

52
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What was imprisonment for?

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Minor crimes such as debt

53
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Name the 4 reasons why homocide was so high in middle ages😡🤤😵🏚give eg

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  1. anger, eg-william of willington had no money to buy candles so murdered the seller
  2. Hunger caused by famine
  3. suicide- a sin against God
  4. Vagrancy, eg after the black death in 1348 so 3 years later parliament said everyone had to work in their village
54
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What were outlaws?eg

A

Feared and despised gangs that stole from the rich and gave to the poor
Eg William Faut robbed two unknown men of £10

55
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Name the 5 types of homocide🙋🏼‍♂️👊🏼😱😵😈

A 
Justifiable homocide
Homocide in self-defence
Accidental homocide 
Suicide
Murder

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