In the Middle Ages there were no prisons as we know them and the mentally ill were left to their own devices. Most because of behavior were generally considered to be witches and burned at the stake. The dungeon was the main form of imprisoning. The process of prisons began about 1250 to hold people for trial and the first were for debtors.
A person who lived in the Middle Ages is called medieval.
During the middle ages, heresy trials were called inquisitions.
buthead
Prisons were still prisons, the penal system was still intact, concentration camps were just an addition.
gothic
A person who lived in the Middle Ages is called medieval.
During the middle ages, heresy trials were called inquisitions.
Dorothea Dix was a member of what is called the asylum movement. This movement was trying to remedy the abysmal treatment of the mentally ill in prisons by having state asylums built for them. A result of this movement was the creation of 32 asylums in the United States.
Reformatory schools.
Jails are typically called correctional facilities or detention centers within the criminal justice system. They are used to temporarily house individuals who are awaiting trial or serving short-term sentences.
buthead
If you were kind an polite, you might be called chivalrous.
Prisons were still prisons, the penal system was still intact, concentration camps were just an addition.
gothic
No or it wouldn't be called "Elizabethan" it would have been called the middle ages. Two different time periods.
It is called foreshadowing.
The king