Medieval Crime + Punishments

Question 1

Name all the groups on the social hierachy of the medieval church.

Answer 1

1. God
2. Pope
3. Cardinals or Archbishops
4. Bishops
5. Parish Priests, Abbots, Monks + Frairs
6. Ordinary people

Question 2

Name name at least 4 (max 6) medieval crimes and their punishments.

Answer 2

1. Gossip - scoldsbride
2. Not working hard enough - flogged
3. Cheating on partner/drunkenness - stocks or pillary
4. Theft - fines or even loss of hand
5. Treason - hanged publicly
6. Heresy - pray banishment

Question 3

What are doom paintings?

What were they used for?

Answer 3

Paintings that represented what people thought hell looked like.

Usually what people thought would happen on judgement day.

Question 4

Why did people go on crusades?

Answer 4

To region control of the holy land, and also to explore and also for wealth.

People came back from crusades and introduced new items and food.

Question 5

What does pilgrimage mean?

Answer 5

A religious journey.

Question 6

Who won the battle of the crusades?

Answer 6

Christians and Jewish.

Question 7

Name 3 clergy’s and their duties.

Answer 7

Priests - performed sacred rites
Monks - performed manual labor. Took vows of poverty and obedience to their leaders.
Friars - their purpose was preaching. They lived lives of extreme simplicity and poverty.

they are all members of the ‘Christian clergy’.

Question 8

Define heresy.

Answer 8

Belief or opinion contrary to Orthodox religion (especially Christian.)

Question 9

Define tithe

Answer 9

1/10 of an annual produce or earnings, formally taken as a tax for the support of the church and clergy.

Question 10

Hung, drawn and quartered defined.

Answer 10

A punishment in England used for men who are found guilty of high treason.

Question 11

Treason defined.

Answer 11

The crime of betraying one’s country, e.g. attempting to murder.

Question 12

Repentant defined.

Answer 12

Expressing or feeling sincere regret.

Question 13

List two positive outcomes of the crusades.

Answer 13

• Discovered new items such as food and clothing.

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Question 14

List two negative outcomes of the crusades.

Answer 14

• many children died.

- not all of the crusades were successful.

Question 15

Explain the first crusade.

Answer 15

• began in 1095.
• pope urban II was involved.
• pope urban II called publicly for a crusade to aid eastern Christians and recover the holy land’s.

Question 16

Explain the second crusade.

Answer 16

• began in 1145.
• pope eugene III was involved.
• the first Crusade to be led by European kings.

Question 17

Explain the third crusade.

Answer 17

• began in 1189
• Empre Frederick Barbarossa, King Philip II of France were involved.
• A treaty was made granting Muslim control over Jerusalem.

Question 18

Explain the fourth crusade.

Answer 18

• began in 1204
• pope innocent II was involved.
• intended to conquer muslim controlled Jerusalem.

Question 19

Explain the children’s crusade.

Answer 19

• began in 1212.
• European Christians were involved.
• lead by European Christians to regain the land from the Muslims.

Question 20

Why did people go on the crusades?

Answer 20

• to gain power
• for wealth
• to discover new things.

Question 21

Why did the crusades happen in the first place?

Answer 21

A accursed race violently invited the lands of the Christians

Question 22

For the extended response, how many paragraphs do you need?

Answer 22

Two paragraphs.

Question 23

What are the two paragraphs about in the extended response?

Answer 23

1 the Catholic Church

2 the monarch (feudal society)

Question 24

Plan for paragraph 1.

Answer 24

• how did the church maintain power over the medieval society?
• who held the power in the Catholic Church?
• key thing the people wanted from the church is salvation (meaning to be ‘saved’)