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 ...

Medieval Christians in Denmark showed off their wealth in death by buying prestigious graves: the closer to the church, the ...

In A Nutshell Medieval Danish cemeteries show no spatial segregation of leprosy or TB sufferers: diseased individuals were ...

Medieval Christian burials in Denmark were likely more influenced by money than supposed outward markers of sin, according to new research.

Life in the Middle Ages, between the fifth and the fifteenth centuries, was hard. Long before the discovery of penicillin, the people accepted that death was going to be with them sooner rather than ...

An international team of archaeologists used graveyards in Denmark to investigate social exclusion based on illness.

In medieval Denmark, death could double as a display of status. The closer your grave lay to a church wall or inside a ...

A researcher in the Global Irish Studies Initiative at Georgetown University (GIS) explored the early medieval history of animal disease in Ireland at a talk March 27. Singer said that although other ...

When people think of Medieval diseases, hysterical dancing is not usually what first comes to mind. Yet in 14th and 15th century Germany, dozens of ordinary people claimed to be infected by the ...

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 ...