An international team of archaeologists used graveyards in Denmark to investigate social exclusion based on illness. The post ...
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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 ...
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Status, Not Sickness, Determined Where Medieval Danes Were Buried
In A Nutshell Medieval Danish cemeteries show no spatial segregation of leprosy or TB sufferers: diseased individuals were ...
Falling ill with leprosy or tuberculosis wasn’t a death sentence for your social status in medieval Denmark, researchers have ...
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 ...
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The medieval punishment worse than death
Hanging was a common medieval execution, but for certain criminals, punishment did not end with death. After execution, bodies were sometimes placed in iron cages known as gibbets and displayed in ...
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 ...
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