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 ...

As he demonstrated so spectacularly with Monty Python’s Life of Brian, John Cleese has never suffered from a fear of offending religious sensibilities. None the less, some people do tend to take ...

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Roger Lewis gets a behind the scenes look in to the inner working of the infamous Cambridge Footlights. New book recounts the drama club's history and alumni.

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

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

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

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 Christian burials in Denmark were likely more influenced by money than supposed outward markers of sin, according to new research.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Who’s “Tommy” is heading back on tour, and Cleveland will be its first stop. An all-new North American production of the Tony Award-winning rock musical will hold technical ...

The celebrated director of “Titicut Follies” and dozens of other documentaries was known for in-depth, unadorned movies that ...

Against plutocrats and autocrats, the progressive response must be active defence of equality—not as slogan, but also as ...