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

University of CambridgeThe “London Medieval Murder Map” that was created by the University of Cambridge. Life definitely wasn’t easy in the Middle Ages. It was a period of history ...

In this video, medieval historian Dr Eleanor Janega takes us on a whistle-stop tour across London, visiting key historical sites and shining a light on the various communities of medieval London.

London (CNN) — 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. The homicide ...

Medieval jigsaw: Art historians have pieced together hundreds of tile fragments to produce this digital reconstruction of the long-lost mosaic pavement (Amanda Luyster, College of The Holy Cross ...

Perhaps one of the oddest moral panics - a fear that some evil threatens the wellbeing of society - was one that arose in medieval times ... eventually banned from London. Chronicler and ...

The homicide rate in the city was four to five times higher than that of 14th-century London or York, said researchers from the University of Cambridge, who have mapped medieval England’s known ...