> A project mapping medieval England's known murder cases has now added Oxford and York to its street plan of London's 14th century slayings, and found that Oxford's student population was by far the most lethally violent of all social or professional groups in any of the three cities.
Why are works of #fiction (books, comic, animation, film) depicting #rape or #pedophilia more offensive to more people and cause more calls to boycott or censorship than fiction depicting extreme #violence or #murder, when killing someone is universally regarded as worse than raping someone (morally worse) and criminal systems everywhere punish murderers more harshly than rapists (legally worse)?
Queer thriller with several surprising twists, The Guilty Twin is a fun and fast paced read following Evan and Fiona, teenagers who grew up into adults with a dark secret. A disappearing twin is at the heart of this murder mystery, and the murderer may not be the person you think.
"Romantic Pursuits? Rethinking Courtship in Georgian Wales" by Angela Joy Muir.
Abstract
Existing histories of #courtship in the long eighteenth century typically focus on it as a step on the road to marriage [rarely] consider the immediate risks for unmarried women associated with courtship customs that allow or encourage premarital sex. Historians of sexual violence have identified these risks, but they rarely feature in histories of courtship. Using records from the Court of Great Sessions, this article explores the limited but tangible evidence of conjugal courtship customs in #Georgian#Wales, often referred to as ‘bundling’ or ‘courtship at night’. It then interrogates records of #murder and sexual #assault associated with courtship to examine the blurred lines between rape and seduction, which in Wales were further complicated by courtship practices that created additional vulnerabilities for women.