It's easy to lose oneself down the rabbit hole of medieval murder for hours, filtering the killings by year, choice of weapon, and location. Think of it as a kind of 14th-century version of Clue: It ...

The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male ...

To map the murders, the researchers read coroners ... Based on their research, the team estimate that late-medieval Oxford had a homicide rate of 60 to 75 per 100,000 people – approximately ...

The team used these rolls and maps to construct the street atlas ... rate in Oxford was potentially 4 to 5 times higher than late medieval London or York. It also put the homicide rate at about ...

revealed in the digital resource Medieval Murder Maps. While Oxford in late medieval England was one of the most significant centres of learning in Europe, with a population of around 7,000 ...

“The interactive Medieval Murder Maps give unique insight into violence and justice in late medieval London, York, and Oxford,” the creators of the maps wrote on the maps’ website.

The Medieval Murder Maps platform allows users to explore and ... "When a suspected murder victim was discovered in late medieval England the coroner would be sought, and the local bailiff would ...

At the Morgan Library, 15th-century illuminated atlases embody the medieval appetite for wonder and myth. If the past is a ...