Life in medieval Cambridge was toughest for the ordinary workers, according to a study of the “skeletal trauma” found on remains from three different...
Researchers from Cambridge and Queen’s University Belfast have identified and defined 500 Irish words, many of which had been lost, and unlocked the...
New facial reconstruction of a man buried in a medieval hospital graveyard discovered underneath a Cambridge college sheds light on how ordinary poor...
An ancient song repertory will be heard for the first time in 1,000 years this week after being ‘reconstructed’ by a Cambridge researcher and a world...
It may seem strange to describe paper as technology, but its arrival in England in about 1300 was a pivotal moment in cultural history. That story is...
A study of one of the most important medieval texts devoted to women’s medicine has opened a window into the many rituals associated with conception...
One of the UK’s most important medieval manuscripts is revealing ghosts from the past after new research and imaging work discovered eerie faces and...
![The "empericum that never fails" in the margin of the Compendium of Gilbertus Anglicus.The instructions are for making and applying an amulet for conception.](https://www.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/content-580x288/public/news/research/features/160122pembroke.jpg?itok=5yFwZnEG "The "empericum that never fails" in the margin of the Compendium of Gilbertus Anglicus.The instructions are for making and applying an amulet for conception., Credit: By permission of the Master and Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge")
