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The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male college students were among the most frequent killers.

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 ...

Ela Fitzpayne was a powerful aristocrat who offended the Archbishop of Canterbury and was ordered to do a "walk of shame." ...

Researchers cite new evidence of how a medieval British noblewoman may have plotted to exact revenge and help kill her former lover, a priest, nearly 700 years ago.

Researchers cite new evidence of how a medieval British noblewoman may have plotted to exact revenge and help kill her former lover, a priest, nearly 700 years ago.

The medieval social and economic order gave rise to a type of town and village that we consider charming today. They were ...

Cambridge University's Medieval Murder Maps project analysed the murder of priest John Forde. Forde was killed in 1337 in a calculated act of revenge by a member of the English aristocracy. Ela ...

He may have betrayed her to the Church—she may have had him killed. Researcher uncovers medieval murder in modern-day maps.

Eisner leads the Medieval Murder Maps project, a digital resource that plots crime scenes based on translations of the coroners' rolls, mainly from the 14th century.