Who Killed the Innkeeper With a Sword in 1315?
A map pinpointing hundreds of homicides in 14th-century England could help teach medieval history.
Source: nytimes.com
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A map pinpointing hundreds of homicides in 14th-century England could help teach medieval history.
Film and television would tell us that medieval English cities were fetid and filthy, and that’s without even providing us with the implicit aromas. But how much truth is there to the trope? Historian Claire Martin, specialises in the history of medieval England, reveals that it wasn’t nearly as bad as we might think