Crime+and+Punishments

 Crime and Punishment  During the middle ages they did not have a police system. The rulers and nobles had bodygaurds to protect them and the normal people had to band together to protect themselves  But in England if anyone saw a crime being preformed they had to go and try to stop it. If the person decided to run the people were assumed to chase after them and capture them. In the middle ages, the people had violence all around them. The church even had pictures of people being crucified in the stain glass windows.  One of the most common crimes that people were prosecuted for was witchcraft, The art and/or practicing of being a person who professes or is supposed to practice magic.

The most common torture device used was the Iron Maiden. The Iron Maiden is a humanly shaped box in which the person who was found guilty would be put into. The doors of the box had spikes on the inside so when the criminal was put in the box the spikes would pierce his or her skin, if the box was fully closed the criminal was sure to die. (Example below)  <span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Some other torture devices were they would tie the criminal to a tree then tie there limbs to a horse and then the horse would pull off there limbs. They would brand them, Branding is when you get metal very hot in a fire and push it onto someones skin and it leaves a mark. They would suspend you by your arms in a dungeon, They would also shove objects under your fingernails and pick them out.

No one truly knows why the middle ages had such harsh punishments for even little crimes like littering. All we do know is that the Middle ages were surrounded by violence. In the church they had pictures of men being crucified on the stain glass windows

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