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The story of Cambridge's medieval church on Historic England 'at risk' list The church of St Andrew the Less, also known as Abbey Church, is currently closed to the public and seems likely to ...
It's easy to lose oneself down the rabbit hole of medieval murder for hours, filtering the killings by year, choice of weapon ...
The texts are from the collections of the University Library, Fitzwilliam Museum and a dozen Cambridge colleges. Mr Freeman said: "For all their complexities, medieval medical recipes are very ...
While analyzing a map depicting 355 medieval murders, University of Cambridge criminologist Manuel Eisner uncovered new evidence in Forde’s six-century-old homicide case, ... “Taken together, these ...
According to its website, All Saints Church in Rampton first appears in the records in 1092 when "Roger from Picot of Cambridge and his wife founded a church dedicated to St. Giles and granted the ...
At first glance, the 16th-century register found in the Cambridge University Library might not seem the most remarkable of objects. Its brittle pages simply held handwritten records of property ...
The five-year After the Plague project, which began in 2016, focused on investigating burials from Cambridge’s Hospital of St. John the Evangelist, the medieval parish church of All Saints by ...
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 ...
Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King Arthur and Merlin, with its preservation considered a miracle.
A 700-year-old fresco discovered in the convent church of S. Antonio in Polesine in Ferrara, Italy, reveals that luxurious Islamic tents were used to conceal altars in medieval European churches ...
The texts are from the collections of the University Library, Fitzwilliam Museum and a dozen Cambridge colleges. Mr Freeman said: "For all their complexities, medieval medical recipes are very ...