Middle Ages - Hurumanu 3

Medieval Punishment
Many tortures and cruel punishments were used in medieval times. These included…

These included:

• Beheading, believe it or not, but in the middle ages, it would have been the most honorable and quickest execution…

• Burning.

• Hung, strung, and quartered.

• Hanging.

• Stretching.

• Boiling to death.

• The wheel.

But one gruesome punishment that is cruel enough to get the truth out of someone or that is maybe the most painful would maybe perhaps the most brutal of all execution methods is hung, strung and quartered. This was traditionally given to anyone found guilty of high treason. The person who did what they did would be hung and just seconds before death released then disemboweled and their organs were then thrown into a fire - all while still alive.

This punishment would really only come to a person if they have done something very bad, maybe even worse than theft, maybe a crime that could bring you to punishment could be Homicide - (Murder or manslaughter)...


What life in the middle ages was like?

Interestingly, life in the middle ages was mostly divided the rich and poor were separated in how they lived, while the rich-(King, Clergy/Nobleman) lived in a castle they got to have showers every day and having more than enough food, then the poor-(Farmers/Peasants) having barely enough money for food, or couldn’t shower every day.

This was important because it shows how life would suck so much to be poor and how the poor lived, or maybe how it was hard to be a peasant in the middle ages...