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Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History Magazine.

You're on the jury of a medieval murder case, where a man has been fatally stabbed with a sword.

Why do you need to know how much the sword was worth?

Well, that's one of the questions that Professor Manuel Eisner answers in this

conversation with David Musgrove. It's all about street violence and homicide in towns and cities

in the Middle Ages. The conversation is based on Manuel's fascinating research project,

medieval murder maps, where along with a team of investigators,

he has mapped out murder cases in Oxford, London and York, based on the records of these crimes

in the coroner's roles, giving some fascinating insights into the mean streets of medieval cities.

Today we are talking about a gory topic but a fascinating topic and that is

murder and violence in medieval England and we're talking off the back of a really interesting

project, the medieval murder maps project. So, Manor, how likely were you to get murdered in a late medieval English town or

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