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 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 murder cases. “It wasn’t surprising, it was what I expected,” Professor Manuel Eisner, lead murder map investigator and director of the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Criminology, told CNN. “I knew from previous publications that Oxford had a very high homicide rate.
‘The perfect storm for violence’ At the time, Oxford was one of the largest and most respected centers of learning in the West, attracting international scholars. It had a population of about 7,000 – 1,500 of whom are believed to have been students. “ was the perfect storm for violence,” Eisner said. Oxford students at the time were all male and typically aged between 14 and 21 years old.
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