Learn how medieval Denmark’s burial practices reveal that leprosy and tuberculosis patients were not excluded from ...
In medieval Denmark, death could double as a display of status. The closer your grave lay to a church wall or inside a ...
Money is only one facet of social relations, however. Communities have long discriminated against and ostracized residents with debilitating illnesses—especially those with outward physical effects.
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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 ...
Falling ill with leprosy or tuberculosis wasn’t a death sentence for your social status in medieval Denmark, researchers have ...
An international team of archaeologists used graveyards in Denmark to investigate social exclusion based on illness.
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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 ...
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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