In 2014, Eisner founded Cambridge’s Violence Research Centre, where he and a colleague, Stephanie Brown, a historical criminologist at the University of Warwick, have been mapping records of medieval murders in English cities. Last fall, they published a digital map of sixty-eight homicides in Oxford between 1296 and 1348.
Mary’s Passage and the High Street, where, on a February afternoon in 1298, a crowd of scholars and manciples armed themselves “with bows and arrows, swords and bucklers, slings and stones, and made an assault on all laymen that they could reach.” In the rampage, a shopkeeper named Edward de Hales barricaded himself inside with his wife, Basilia. From an upstairs window, he shot a student named Fulk Neyrmit with an arrow through his left eye. Neyrmit died four days later.
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