Originally, ecclesiastical courts were intended to try people for heresy and other religious crimes and to try clergy for any crime they were accused of, since the clergy were not generally subject to secular authorities but did have to obey secular law.
In theory, an ecclesiastical court could punish anyone brought before it for any crime, and it was possible for people to appeal to ecclesiastical court to avoid secular court. There were advantages in appearing before an ecclesiastical court because they were intended to instruct the criminal rather than get revenge, and because they were more merciful and did in many times when torture was used, they did not use torture. Ecclesiastical courts were intended to be the mechanism for trying clergy, but since it was unclear exactly who the clergy were, they could be appealed to by anyone who was literate, the standard being that they could at least read the 51st psalm.
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No. The Middle ages lasted from 410 AD to 1400 and Elizabethan England was when Queen Elizabeth I was in power in 1500's.
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The Church of England did not exist during the Middle Ages. It was formed after the Dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII at the beginning of the modern era.
BECAUSE THEY DID CRIME
the death penalty or hung to death basically.
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did the queen of England, Victoria rule during the middle ages?
how many families ruled in the middle ages
In England during the Middle Ages
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No. The Middle ages lasted from 410 AD to 1400 and Elizabethan England was when Queen Elizabeth I was in power in 1500's.
Yes, the Universities of Bologna, Italy and Oxford, England were both operating in the middle ages.
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