A recent YouGov poll found that the word that Americans most associate with the Middle Ages is "violent." Medieval towns may appear to be full of random violence, every alleyway a potential crime ...

For centuries, some of Europe’s most shocking killings survived only as whispers in parchment and bone, their victims reduced to nameless skulls and half-told chronicles. Now, a new generation of ...

LONDON — A saddlemaker ambushed outside a brewhouse. A man stabbed to death after he stumbled over a heap of dung while trying to flee a fight. And a priest killed by three knife-wielding assailants, ...

In 2019, we told you about a new interactive digital “murder map” of London compiled by University of Cambridge criminologist Manuel Eisner. Drawing on data catalogued in the city coroners’ rolls, the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Archbishop of Canterbury's 1332 letter accused Ela Fitzpayne, a wealthy aristocrat, of committing serial adultery "with ...

A Cambridge criminologist has uncovered new evidence in the killing of a priest, John Forde, who had his throat cut on a busy London street almost seven centuries ago. The case is among hundreds ...

What words come to mind when you think of the Middle Ages, also known as the medieval period? If you’re thinking “violence,” you’re not wrong (though I would have added “smelly”). To investigate the ...

Image of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s letters to the Bishop of Winchester on the subject of Ela Fitzpayne. Register of John de Stratford. Reproduced with permission of Hampshire Archives and ...

The untimely death in 1593 of Christopher Marlowe robbed English literature of one of its greatest dramatists - a man who mentored and influenced no lesser figure than William Shakespeare himself. But ...

The London Archives. Inquest number 15 on 1336-7 City of London Coroner’s Rolls (in CLA/041/IQ/01/006) A Cambridge criminologist has uncovered new evidence in the killing of a priest, John Forde, who ...