Crime and Punishment: Keeping Order
From the Tithing system to the Hue and Cry, how a society without a police force maintained law.
Key Questions
- 1How did "collective responsibility" work in a medieval village?
- 2Why were medieval punishments so public and often violent?
- 3What was the purpose of the "Sanctuary" in a church?
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