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 ...

And in Europe, the medieval era was particularly disease-ridden. But what happened when money and social stigma collided? To ...

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 ...

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

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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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