Past Crimes. Archaeological and Historical Evidence for Ancient Misdeeds
Plate 11. Ned Kelly photographed in 1880 (Source: National Archives of Australia) ...
Plate 12. Prisoners working at the treadmill at Coldbath Fields (Source: Henry MayhewThe Criminal Prisons of London, and Scenes ...
CHAPTER 5 Medieva l C ri me Medieval law The conquest of England by the Normans marked the start of gradual change in the admini ...
meetings, loitering after dark, or prostitution). Manor courts were profitable for the lord, who could claim the fines or withho ...
PAST CRIMES Then as now, it was the investigation of sudden death that formed the most important part of the coroner’s work. It ...
forty days. Once inside, or in some cases merely hanging on to the door knocker, he could hope that he could make another escape ...
PAST CRIMES Church law In the late twelfth century, St Hugh, the Bishop of Lincoln, pronounced a sentence of excommunication on ...
typically restricted marriages to other families of similar status. It is clear that some people continued to flout church rules ...
PAST CRIMES Sexual crimes were common, especially by the later fourteenth century, in the wake of the upheavals caused by the Bl ...
guilty by a Church court for sexual offences, he very often got off very lightly, with a just a penance or a fine. Walter Ramsey ...
PAST CRIMES Forensic investigations were undertaken on a piece of bone and a fragment of cloth reputedly relics of Joan of Arc, ...
version was drawn by the antiquarian William Camden, but it has subsequently disappeared (Figure 18). There is an account by Gir ...
PAST CRIMES Reliquaries could travel quite a lot. They could be carried to places where oaths were being administered, or to the ...
but by the Crusader knights. Some of these items may be seen today in museums in, among other cities, Rome and Venice. During th ...
PAST CRIMES appointed judges which could pass sentence for the most serious crimes. Such a crime was committed by Alan of Levert ...
CommonLaw The term‘common law’dates from 1154 when Henry II created a system of law based on custom and precedents that was inte ...
PAST CRIMES the crown would pass to another head on Ascension Day in 1213. John sent the hermit to be imprisoned at Corfe until ...
drink. Quality standards and pricing regulations were enacted, especially in England for bread. The Assize of Bread of 1203 was ...
PAST CRIMES Anyone found selling bad or fraudulent wine would be forced to drink all of it! They could be fined, or placed in th ...
early 1330s. The Folvilles were, on occasion, employed by apparently respectable people, including churchmen and monks, as merce ...
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