The London Museum has examples with toe points longer than 10cm, while a monk at Evesham Abbey claimed in 1394 that he had seen people wear them "half a yard (45cm) in length".

London (CNN) — 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 ...

The 1337 murder of the priest John Forde in the heart of medieval London was especially gruesome: one attacker slit Forde's throat with a dagger while two others stabbed him with "long knives" in ...

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.

Retropolis Just how bloody was medieval England? A ‘murder map’ holds some surprises. The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford ...

In the illuminating and entertaining blog Going Medieval, Eleanor Janega, a medievalist at the London School of Economics, upends prevalent misconceptions about medieval Europe.These ...

Researchers have uncovered handwritten letters, court documents, and a coroner’s report related to the nearly 700-year-old cold case murder of a medieval priest. Published on June 5 in the ...

Drawing on data catalogued in the city coroners' rolls, the map showed the approximate location of 142 homicide cases in late medieval London. The Medieval Murder Maps project has since expanded ...

Medieval Oxford had a murder rate about three times higher than London’s during the same period, and some sixty times the level Oxford has today.

The unsolved London murder of priest John Forde from 1337 is now solved, revealing Forde’s death likely came at the order of English noblewoman Ela Fitzpayne.

A rare ring, set with sapphire, emerald and garnets and once owned by a medieval bishop, is coming to auction on March 26 sale of jewelry, silver, and objets d’art at Noonans Mayfair, in London ...