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2023-09-29 Science & Technology

Oxford Was The Murder Capital of Late Medieval England, And It Was All Because of Students

[ScienceAlert] Oxford today is known as a place of learning and elite scholarship. Several hundred years ago, the university town had something of a darker reputation.

A deep dive into historical documents reveals that during the late medieval period in the 14th century CE, Oxford had a per capita murder rate four to five times higher than other high-population hubs like York and London.

And the reason? Bloody students.

Like, quite literally. Newly translated documents list 75 percent of the perpetrators of murders with known background as "clericus", a term most commonly used to describe students or members of the then-recently founded University of Oxford. lAnd 72 percent of the victims were also classed as clericus.
And here I used to think that higher educations started going rotten in my lifetime.

I was taught that in medieval Paris the university students used to regularly run riot in the streets... much as they and the unions do today, come to think of it.

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#1 Like cowboys in cow towns - no cow boys, no money.

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