Researchers spent five years studying bones from medieval Cambridge, England, to see what life was like for a cross section of the city’s survivors of the Black Death.

In medieval Spain, the rigid social order didn't always stop ambitious peasants from rising through the ranks. This video uncovers the rare but fascinating paths that led commoners to knighthood ...

Illness in the Middle Ages was often a death sentence, especially for commoners. With limited medical knowledge, widespread superstition, and poor hygiene, survival depended on luck, community ...

An illustration of life in medieval Cambridge Mark Gridley Archaeologists from the University of Cambridge have compiled a series of “bone biographies” that shed new light on residents of ...

But this was not the case. In “A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages,” Anthony Bale describes a variety of medieval commoners taking long journeys on foot and horseback and by ship.