eshrag
11-28-2018, 01:45 PM
Brutal range of revenge killings and fatal scuffles recorded by coroners in early 1300s
It kicked off at a urinal in Cheapside, and ended in a bloody and brutal murder. Poor aim has been responsible for many unexpected deaths, but perhaps none more so than that of Philip of Ashendon.
One of a brutal range of fatal scuffles, revenge killings and infanticides recorded by London coroners in the early 1300s, Philip’s demise is among those to feature in a new interactive (https://www.vrc.crim.cam.ac.uk/)map (https://www.vrc.crim.cam.ac.uk/) that uses death to breathe life into medieval London.
Continue reading... (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/28/death-map-medieval-london-1300s)
It kicked off at a urinal in Cheapside, and ended in a bloody and brutal murder. Poor aim has been responsible for many unexpected deaths, but perhaps none more so than that of Philip of Ashendon.
One of a brutal range of fatal scuffles, revenge killings and infanticides recorded by London coroners in the early 1300s, Philip’s demise is among those to feature in a new interactive (https://www.vrc.crim.cam.ac.uk/)map (https://www.vrc.crim.cam.ac.uk/) that uses death to breathe life into medieval London.
Continue reading... (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/28/death-map-medieval-london-1300s)