Murder Maps of Medieval England Reveal Gruesome Past
A University of Cambridge research team has mapped murders that took place around the 14th century to create interactive murder maps of three English cities.
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A University of Cambridge research team has mapped murders that took place around the 14th century to create interactive murder maps of three English cities.
Oxford was the murder capital of late-medieval England, with the city’s male university population being the main catalyst for violence, according to new research.
Homicide rate may have been about 50 times higher than modern-day standards, study suggests
Oxford today is known as a place of learning and elite scholarship.
A project mapping medieval England’s murder cases has found that Oxford’s student population was the most violent.