Leprosy carried powerful stigma in medieval Europe, but new skeletal evidence from Danish cemeteries suggests the sick were not always pushed aside in death. In medieval Denmark, burial location ...
And in Europe, the medieval era was particularly disease-ridden. But what happened when money and social stigma collided? To ...
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Rich medieval Christians bought graves 'closer to God' despite leprosy stigma, archaeologists find
Medieval Christians in Denmark showed off their wealth in death by buying prestigious graves: the closer to the church, the ...
In medieval Denmark, death could double as a display of status. The closer your grave lay to a church wall or inside a ...
The research, published in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, analyzed 939 adult skeletons from five medieval cemeteries in Denmark, dating from approximately 1050 to 1536 AD. The findings ...
An international team of archaeologists used graveyards in Denmark to investigate social exclusion based on illness.
I didn’t see my friend’s suicide coming – and as a nation, we’re blind to mental health - COMMENT: As Prince William has ...
Medieval Christians in Denmark showed off their wealth in death by buying prestigious graves: the closer to the church, the higher the price ...
A few years ago, when my son was still at school, a friend of his made a TikTok video about having her braces removed. It ...
Pound for pound, people from a Jewish background have done more to drive progress in modern Australia than any other minority ...
It’s time to return to Tunisia, the Mediterranean’s most intriguing country - As tourists slowly return to the North African country, Phil Thomas uncovers its Ottoman tiles, ancient amphitheatres and ...
Medieval Christian burials in Denmark were likely more influenced by money than supposed outward markers of sin, according to new research.
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