Crime and Punishment in Medieval Europe
Across
- 3. being put into a cauldron of hot water for a slow and painful death.
- 7. killing someone
- 9. This is a cage that displayed the bodies
- 10. removal of the head from a living body
- 13. these people would work in the lord’s manor house, cooking, cleaning, laundering. These people were also called peasants.
- 14. This device would saw you in half up until your stomach, you were then left to bleed to death.
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- 1. stealing or taking something that isn’t your own.
- 2. this person owned the land
- 3. being put on a wooden stake and having fire underneath you. This was a form of punishment
- 4. a person’s head would be put in a device that would crack your skull and during this punishment.
- 5. This was a punishment for high treason, you would be put on a rope, tied to a tree this would kill you.
- 6. supernatural or magical powers, this type of person was blamed when animals died, when people died of diseases.
- 8. this person took orders from the king
- 11. taking something that isn’t your own property.
- 12. betraying the king or lord