London inwards the 14th Century was a unsafe house to be. The murder charge per unit of measurement inwards early on 14th century London was well-nigh 15-20 times higher than an English linguistic communication town amongst an equal sized population today. H5N1 novel interactive map shows that marketplace areas inwards London were especially dangerous.
The University of Cambridge's novel London Medieval Murder Map plots the locations of 142 murders which took house inwards the working capital missive of the alphabet inwards belatedly medieval London. The map uses information from the Coroner's Rolls. The coroners as well as their sheriffs inwards medieval London investigated vehement deaths as well as published the results inwards the Coroner's Rolls. Nine of these Coroners' Rolls, roofing the City of London, from the get-go one-half of the 14th century convey survived.
The London Medieval Murder Map reveals that unopen to 68% of homicides inwards medieval London occurred inwards populace commercial spaces, such equally markets as well as squares. There are 2 primary homicide hotspots on the map. One stretches from St Paul's to St Mary's le Bow inwards the Cheapside expanse of London. An expanse which was amount of stall as well as shops. Another murder hotspot seems to radiate unopen to Leadenhall Market.
You tin filter the murders which are shown on the map yesteryear the sex of the victim, the type of murder weapon used, yesteryear appointment attain as well as yesteryear criminal offence scene (public or somebody spaces). Over 1 tertiary of the murders were carried out using a 'long knife'. Most men inwards London inwards the 14th century would live armed inwards populace amongst a sword or knife. The bulk of the victims of murder on the map are men. One affair the map doesn't exhibit is that men were also the most probable perpetrators of these crimes. 92% of the homicides shown on the map were carried out yesteryear men.
Another affair non shown yesteryear the map is when homicides most oft occurred inwards medieval London. 31% of the murders shown on the map happened on a Sunday. The 1 solar daytime of the calendar week when most people didn't convey to work. 77% of the murders occurred inwards the evenings betwixt the times of five pm as well as x pm.
