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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

During long, cold winters in medieval Europe, church organs grew gray, sickly-looking circles that spread over their pipes.

Medieval paintings were designed to communicate complex ideas through symbolism rather than realism. Colors, gestures, animals, and objects carried specific meanings understood by contemporary viewers ...

New research reveals a forgotten side of medieval Christianity—one rooted not in cathedrals, but in fields, forests, and farms. Historian Dr. Krisztina Ilko uncovers how the Augustinian order built ...

A scorched cherry twig miraculously sprouting; a swamp restored to ‘peak fertility’; healing the broken leg of an ox; and ...