Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Saturday 11 December 2021

Murder in early fourteenth century London


I came across a series of online articles from 2018 about research by a criminologist into murders in London in the period 1300-1340.

The records are analysed in terms of matters such as incidence, location, method, motive, sex or gender of both victim and assailant, time of day and suchlike.

The articles themselves can be seen at Medieval London map reveals grisly 14th Century deaths - including dagger stabbings, sword beheadings and eel skin killings from The Sun ( dare I say it not the most obvious paper in which to seek scholarly work on the medieval period ), at Medieval London's murder hotspots revealed from the BBC News and at Digital map reveals medieval London's homicide 'hot spots' from Medievalists.net.

There has been a similar study for medieval Oxford and published some years ago in Past and Present. This also revealed a diversity of patterns in terms of such things as risk and location.


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