A letter from a medieval archbishop that researchers say reveals the motive behind a six century-old assassination. (Courthouse News via Hampshire Archives) (CN) — As sunset approached after evening ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury's 1332 letter accused Ela Fitzpayne, a wealthy aristocrat, of committing serial adultery "with knights and others, single and married, and even with clerics in holy orders ...

A cold case in England appears to be solved after nearly 700 years. A research team from the Cambridge University Institute of Criminology's Medieval Murder Maps project did a comprehensive analysis ...

A little-known medieval murder mystery continues to intrigue historians centuries after the crime occurred. Limited records ...

The London Archives. Inquest number 15 on 1336-7 City of London Coroner’s Rolls (in CLA/041/IQ/01/006) A Cambridge criminologist has uncovered new evidence in the killing of a priest, John Forde, who ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Figuring out the age of the mutilated remains found in the village of Wharram Percy would be stage one in solving the mystery. And archaeologists ...

Medieval manuscripts are rich sources of knowledge about the past — and not all of the information is written on their pages. Élodie Lévêque at Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris and her colleagues ...

UNDER STRICT EMBARGO UNTIL 19:01 US EDT ON TUESDAY 15TH JULY 2025 / 00:01 UK TIME (BST) ON WEDNESDAY 16 TH JULY 2025 A medieval literary puzzle which has stumped scholars including M.R. James for 130 ...

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(CNN) — The sun was setting on a busy London street on a May evening in 1337 when a group of men approached a priest named John Forde. They surrounded him in front of a church near Old St. Paul’s ...