By the 13th century, Cambridge was a thriving market town with an active river port and a rural agricultural component on the outskirts of town. Its famed university had only just been founded.

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.

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.

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 ...

-- More than 1,000 human remains dating back to medieval times were discovered at a burial site at the University of Cambridge along with at least 400 complete skeletons, according to research ...

'Like all medieval towns, Cambridge was a sea of need,' said Professor John Robb, who led the study. 'A few of the luckier poor people got bed and board in the hospital for life.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...