The Cambridge University Medieval Murder Maps project has been publicised in two online articles about revelations emerging from their research into a murder, a veritable ‘hit job’, in central London in 1337.
This is a case with everything - sex, violence, conspiracy, high society, scandal, brooding vengeance, clerical misbehaviour plus an historic setting - and m, were it not recorded in the Coroner’s Roll, is worthy of a work of historical detective fiction
The story, which moves between London, Wiltshire and Dorset, is an eye-opener to what people called, and could not, get away with in the fourteenth century, and to not a few aspects of that society.
The story was first drawn to my attention by a regular reader who forwarded to me the article from phys.org, which can be accessed at Medieval murder: Records suggest vengeful noblewoman had priest assassinated in 688-year-old cold case
Subsequently I saw a slightly shorter version on Medievalists. net, and that can be viewed at Medieval London Murder Solved: Priest Killed by Noblewoman’s Orders
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