Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another ...

The sight of cattle grazing in the parks and open spaces around Cambridge is as much a part of the scenery as the ancient ...

Life in 14th-century Cambridge, England, couldn’t have been easy. As the Black Death faded, it left behind a devastated society and many poor people. After years in which their bodies were worn ...

During that medieval era, Cambridge was home to a few thousand people. The bubonic plague — known as the Black Death — came to the city between 1348 and 1349, killing 40% to 60% of its ...

As Harvard held a graduation unlike any other in its history, it invoked the most American of principles — free speech — to ...

Each copy of the Suite Vulgate du Merlin was unique, as they were individually handwritten by medieval scribes, and fewer than 40 copies are known to exist. The Cambridge copy was written between ...

The Cambridge University Library exhibition, Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World, showcases medieval manuscripts detailing treatments ranging from the commonplace to the truly peculiar ...

Stories retelling the birth of the Virgin Mary reveal that the Church was more forgiving of infertility than the general ...

Tucked among a trove of medieval documents was Harvard Law School Manuscript 172, identified as a copy of the Magna Carta purchased in 1946.

Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another book, according to experts at the Cambridge University Library in England.