Medieval Period - 1000c - 1500c

Question 1

King’s peace

Answer 1

The king’s duty to take care of law and order

Question 2

Treason

Answer 2

crimes against authority

Question 3

Reeve

Answer 3

A local official appointed from the community

Question 4

King’s shire reeve (sheriff)

Answer 4

A man locally appointed to bring criminals to justice

Question 5

Abbeys

Answer 5

communities of monks/nuns

Question 6

Moral crimes

Answer 6

actions that don’t match society’s views on behaviour

Question 7

Collective responsibility

Answer 7

being responsible for the actions of everyone in your community

Question 8

Crimes against property

Answer 8

involve taking or damaging something that belongs to another person

Question 9

Crimes against the person

Answer 9

cause physical harm to another person

Question 10

Oath

Answer 10

a formal declaration of facts calling on god to witness

Question 11

Peasant

Answer 11

a poor person living in the countryside who owns no land

Question 12

Poaching

Answer 12

illegal hunting on land that does not belong to you

Question 13

Brand

Answer 13

making a mark on a criminal by burning their flesh with a hot iron

Question 14

Hue and cry

Answer 14

a loud cry calling for the pursuit and capture of a criminal

Question 15

Banished

Answer 15

ordered (forced) to leave the country

Question 16

Consecrated

Answer 16

blessed, holy

Question 17

Clergy

Answer 17

people who work for the church, religious leader

Question 18

Reformation

Answer 18

A movement in the 16th century led to a break with the Catholic Church and the beginning of the Protestant church.

Question 19

Heresy

Answer 19

disagreeing with the teachings of the church (or official religion).

Question 20

Treason

Answer 20

crimes against authority (high treason is against the monarch or government).

Question 21

Excommunication

Answer 21

Expel from the Catholic Church.

Question 22

Recant

Answer 22

Make a public statement that you have changed your religious beliefs.

Question 23

Retribution

Answer 23

seeking retaliation, vengeance, or revenge for a crime committed

Question 24

Deterrent

Answer 24

to put people off committing a crime

Question 25

Colonies

Answer 25

new settlements in foreign lands (often taken by force)

Question 26

Rehabilitate

Answer 26

help someone return to normal life and society

Question 27

Pardon

Answer 27

let off a punishment for a crime they have been convicted

Question 28

Capital crime

Answer 28

a crime with the death penalty as punishment

Question 29

Plot

Answer 29

a plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal or harmful

Question 30

Recusant

Answer 30

a person who refuses to submit to an authority or to comply with a rule

Question 31

Popish

Answer 31

Roman Catholic

Question 32

Conspirator

Answer 32

someone who is involved in a conspiracy (a secret plan to do something illegal)

Question 33

Pact

Answer 33

A formal agreement

Question 34

Superstition

Answer 34

Belief based on old ideas about magic rather than reason or science.

Question 35

Enlightenment

Answer 35

The philosophical movement of the 17th and 18th centuries that focused on the use of reason to question and analyse ideas that were previously taken for granted.