Archaeologists were astonished to uncover hundreds of skeletons while excavating the grounds of a British university, which once hosted a medieval church demolished in the 1650s.

The ceremony has come down to us directly from the medieval universities. In the twelfth century, when the reputation of Abelard was drawing thousands of students to Paris, the masters or teachers ...

850) and the Dominican friar Albert the Great (c.1250). Medieval universities valued outdoor places–scholars of Paris had the field of St. Germaine for recreation in the 13th century; Oxford colleges ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—More than 2,000 medieval scholars from around the world will convene on Western Michigan University’s Main ...

Further excavations revealed approximately 170 earlier burials, the majority of which are provisionally thought to relate to ...

However, outside the vaults, archaeologists uncovered about 150 post-medieval burials in the courtyard, and another 170 burials from an earlier period were found even deeper, according to the release.