Criminal Justice System In The Middle Ages

The Criminal Justice System in the Middle Ages In the medieval ages, most medieval societies were monarchies. A Monarchy is a type of government system that is led under one ruler or leader most of the time know as the king, queen, or emperor. Many aspects of the political theory and practice was common to all societies. Two of the biggest influences on the government societies in the Medieval Ages were the cultural traditions and the religious beliefs. Adding all the aspects, cultural traditions and religious beliefs always seemed to underpinned the relationship between ruler and ruled. (Cavendish) The justice system has always been part of a society. Rulers of all kingdoms and territories would not like chaos, control
The only difference about the government is that the king and queen are not the only leader. The government in Britain has been modified to where there is a parlament. The tradition of a king and queen was kept but other people in different parts of the government has power to make laws to control the society. Britain has kept the idea of the Christianity rule although their power is not like what it use to be in the middle ages. Christianity in Britain is more of a how one chooses to live their life, a choice to be a christian unlike in the middle ages when one was forced to be the current religion of the land knowing it would switch when a new ruler controlled the
The people would throw food at the criminal that was locked up in front of everyone on a stand. This type of punishment was one of the oldest punishment known to mankind, almost as old as the last three books of Moses in the Bible. Since this type of punishment was Roman the Byzantine Empire(thought to be the advanced empire of the ancient Roman empire) preserved this notion in eastern europe and by the christian church in the west. In years that followed, Roman legal traditions supplanted Germanic codes. Not long after the Germanic codes were supplanted the Romans changed back to the Roman law. The punishment of crime by the society again became the