Given how terrible punishments could be in the medieval period, it is not surprising that people who had been accused of serious crimes tried a wide range of methods to avoid death. Image caption ...

From the medieval period to the present day, the nature and extent of crime, the enforcement of law and order, and society's punishment of offenders has changed. Various factors have influenced ...

The medieval era is the period of European history extending from ... medieval governments were forever preoccupied with the amount of violent crime sweeping across the land.