“Like all medieval towns, Cambridge was a sea of need,” says Professor John Robb, from the University of Cambridge. “A few of the luckier poor people got bed and board in the hospital for life.

Jenna M. Dittmar, Piers D. Mitchell, Craig Cessford, Sarah A. Inskip, John E. Robb. Medieval injuries: Skeletal trauma as an indicator of past living conditions and hazard risk in Cambridge, England.

The Cambridge Tourist Office runs daily tours that cost $23 (visitcambridge.org). In a constellation of star-power buildings, King's College glitters prominently.

Archaeologists have returned to the site of a 1,000-year-old monastery where they are piecing together evidence of a ...

Researchers give medieval Cambridge residents the ‘Richard III treatment’ to reveal hard-knock lives of those in the city during its famous university’s early years. Study of over 400 ...

The University of Cambridge team excavated a total of 19 monks from the Augustinian friary grounds, plus 25 villagers, all buried between the 12th and 14th centuries. Cambridge Archaeological Unit.

The stories of medieval Cambridge residents have been revealed – by their bones. Findings described as 'bone biographies' show what everyday life was like during and after the Black Death period.

Medieval friars were nearly twice as likely as townspeople to be infected by intestinal parasites, new analysis of remains found in Cambridge shows. This is despite most Augustinian monasteries of ...

The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy comprises over fifty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of this period. Starting in the late eighth century, with the renewal of ...

The team from the Cambridge Archaeological Unit have unearthed 25 skeletons so far More than 25 skeletons have been unearthed by archaeologists investigating the site of a medieval friary in the ...

Social inequality was "recorded on the bones" of Cambridge's medieval residents, according to a new study of hundreds of human remains excavated from three very different burial sites within the ...