A map pinpointing hundreds of homicides in 14th-century England could help teach medieval history. By Isabella Kwai A spice merchant stabbed by a fruit seller over a longstanding feud. A street ...

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Medieval Murder Maps is an interactive website that gives insight into how people were killed in medieval London, York and Oxford. We are going to travel back in time now to medieval England, thanks ...

Meister Franz Schmidt beheaded, hanged, burned or drowned 361 people deemed criminals while he held the role of municipal executioner in Nuremberg between 1577 and 1617. Schmidt used torture to ...