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Medieval Murder Maps

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How students made Oxford the murder capital of late medieval England

A project mapping medieval England’s known murder cases has now added Oxford and York to its street plan of London’s 14 th century slayings . The research suggests that Oxford’s student population was by far the most lethally violent social or professional group in any of the three cities. The team behind the Medieval Murder Maps – a digital resource that plots crime scenes based on translated investigations from 700-year-old coroners’ inquests – estimate the per capita homicide rate in Oxford to have been 4-5 times higher than late medieval London or York. Among Oxford perpetrators with a kno

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