Prologue:
One does not know the name of the author since the document is a simple record of a trial that occurred in the mid-14th Century. We can guess who the writer of this court record by looking who the prominent scribes for the criminal court of the Parlement of Paris in the fourteenth century were. Being the scribe of a court trial is not really relevant to who the author is though. Just copying down precedents does not quite give a voice to the document. The record describes the precedents of the case in general without any direct or indirect dialogue from any of the people involved in the trial. There is no title for this document since it is a trial record, and unlike in today standards, court records weren’t meant to kept read later …show more content…
Adjudication- According to the Washington State Office of Administrative Hearings, it is the judicial procedure by which a judge examines evidence and disputes to come to a decision about the punishments and responsibilities of everyone involved. Disagreements between private parties, between private parties and public officials, and between public officials or public bodies are all fixed through this process.
M. Olivier- Lord of Clisson and knight was quite high up on the social ladder, yet he still committed crimes against the King and was killed for albeit being a noble.
Chatelet of Paris- According to the glossary, this was the command center for the provost of Paris and it held a jail as well as a court that was under the Parlement of Paris. Its court served considerable criminal and civil jurisdiction that increased as time went on. Most treason and murder trails occurred here, and became notorious for being a place for torture.
Treason- It was such a terrible crime because it went against the King, which during this time was one of the worst crimes you could commit. Describes by Maitland in The Law of Treason in England in the Later Middle Ages as, “betyral or breach of trust by a man against his lord… insult to those with public …show more content…
Oliver receives this punishment and made an example of due to his crimes of treasons, and other crimes that went against the king and “the crown of France” and due to the time period. This is a really interesting occurrence because public execution is used for lower class criminals. This was a time of fear in France partially due to the Hundred Years War starting. As Jean Bouteiller noted in Fear of Crime in Late Medieval France, “Thus, you can and must know that there are several cases that are not to receive forgiveness, such as murderers, arsonists, rapists, highway robbers, heretics, sodomites.” This could explain why most of the criminals listed in this court case record were killed and most pretty inhospitably. During this time it was important that especially for terrible crimes, someone paid for it, even if these were people were rather high up in the social ladder. Since crime was seen as especially disturbing to one’s safety and the preservation of social order. This was also mentioned by Trevor Dean in the beginning of Chapter 3, “Late Medieval Crime Waves?” of Crime in Medieval Europe. He talks about how warfare and the bubonic plague cause social problems such as vagabondage and unemployment. He contributes this and general anxiety to the increase in perceived crime than actual crime
One does not know the name of the author since the document is a simple record of a trial that occurred in the mid-14th Century. We can guess who the writer of this court record by looking who the prominent scribes for the criminal court of the Parlement of Paris in the fourteenth century were. Being the scribe of a court trial is not really relevant to who the author is though. Just copying down precedents does not quite give a voice to the document. The record describes the precedents of the case in general without any direct or indirect dialogue from any of the people involved in the trial. There is no title for this document since it is a trial record, and unlike in today standards, court records weren’t meant to kept read later …show more content…
Adjudication- According to the Washington State Office of Administrative Hearings, it is the judicial procedure by which a judge examines evidence and disputes to come to a decision about the punishments and responsibilities of everyone involved. Disagreements between private parties, between private parties and public officials, and between public officials or public bodies are all fixed through this process.
M. Olivier- Lord of Clisson and knight was quite high up on the social ladder, yet he still committed crimes against the King and was killed for albeit being a noble.
Chatelet of Paris- According to the glossary, this was the command center for the provost of Paris and it held a jail as well as a court that was under the Parlement of Paris. Its court served considerable criminal and civil jurisdiction that increased as time went on. Most treason and murder trails occurred here, and became notorious for being a place for torture.
Treason- It was such a terrible crime because it went against the King, which during this time was one of the worst crimes you could commit. Describes by Maitland in The Law of Treason in England in the Later Middle Ages as, “betyral or breach of trust by a man against his lord… insult to those with public …show more content…
Oliver receives this punishment and made an example of due to his crimes of treasons, and other crimes that went against the king and “the crown of France” and due to the time period. This is a really interesting occurrence because public execution is used for lower class criminals. This was a time of fear in France partially due to the Hundred Years War starting. As Jean Bouteiller noted in Fear of Crime in Late Medieval France, “Thus, you can and must know that there are several cases that are not to receive forgiveness, such as murderers, arsonists, rapists, highway robbers, heretics, sodomites.” This could explain why most of the criminals listed in this court case record were killed and most pretty inhospitably. During this time it was important that especially for terrible crimes, someone paid for it, even if these were people were rather high up in the social ladder. Since crime was seen as especially disturbing to one’s safety and the preservation of social order. This was also mentioned by Trevor Dean in the beginning of Chapter 3, “Late Medieval Crime Waves?” of Crime in Medieval Europe. He talks about how warfare and the bubonic plague cause social problems such as vagabondage and unemployment. He contributes this and general anxiety to the increase in perceived crime than actual crime