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The article notes that the translation and documentation is a very manual process based solely on coroners' records. It's more than likely that class structure
by uoaei 3y ago
The article notes that the translation and documentation is a very manual process based solely on coroners' records.
It's more than likely that class structures at the time simply didn't record deaths of commoners, or else commoners may have simply dealt with such things within their own communities. Official bureaucratic systems of the time (for things that weren't related to extracting wealth) were part of the community of the elite.
- qwytw 3y ago> It's more than likely that class structures at the time simply didn't record deaths of commoners That's an interesting claim. Why do you think so? Considering cities were generally more or less run by "commoners". e.g. https://medievalmurdermap.co.uk/maps/london/ https://medievalmurdermap.co.uk/maps/london/ is full of murdered commoners. Many of the victims murdered by students in Oxford were just ordinary townsmen as well.