In medieval Denmark, death could double as a display of status. The closer your grave lay to a church wall or inside a ...
Falling ill with leprosy or tuberculosis wasn’t a death sentence for your social status in medieval Denmark, researchers have ...
Learn how medieval Denmark’s burial practices reveal that leprosy and tuberculosis patients were not excluded from ...
Small round pits as lytic lesions indicate the presence of the pathogen in the cancellous bone tissue the vertebral bodies, which leads to the focal destruction of bone. Recent research suggests that ...
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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 buried alongside healthy neighbors Burial location was determined by social ...
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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