Three similarities between Anglo Saxon, Norman and later Medieval punishment
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- Three similarities between Anglo Saxon, Norman and later Medieval punishment
- Anglo Saxon
- Fines and compensation were most common
- The system of paying compensation to victims of crime, including murder. This was called wergild
- Corporal punishments were also fairly common but capital punishment were rarely used
- Norman
- Use of Capital Punishment and corporal punishments rose dramatically. More became capital crimes
- Breaking Forest Laws was punished very harshly including castration, blinding and hanging
- The Wergild system was ended and fines were paid to the king
- Very minor crimes were still punished by fines,whipping or time in the stocks.
- Later Medieval
- Use of Capital Punishment gradually decreased, although crimes against authority were still harshly punished
- Corpora punishments were still widely used, although many juries would not convict their neighbors unless they were regular offenders
- Fines became more common
- Social Status and punishment
- Medieval punishments varied depending on class and gender- commoners were treated differently tan nobility. Examples of this is:
- The amount of wergild payable in Anglo Saxon times depended on the victim's social status
- During the later medieval period, commoners usually handed, nobles were beheaded
- Norman punishments
- Normans would make the punishments much more public as deterrence and assertion of power,
- Medieval punishments varied depending on class and gender- commoners were treated differently tan nobility. Examples of this is:
- Anglo Saxon
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