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Bones from a Cambridge cemetery have revealed hereto unknown details about destitute users of a medieval social benefits system based in the city.
Researchers analysed over 400 humans remains from the main cemetery of the hospital of St John the Evangelist in Cambridge .
The monks' infection rate was twice that of the townspeople, research reveals.
Friars in Cambridge, England, suffered from these parasites at nearly double the rate found among average unwashed citizens
A new paper published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology presents the results of a study of the bones of “314 individuals dating from the 10 th to the 14 th century,” excavated from three burial sites in Cambridge. The skeletal samples were taken from a parish graveyard where working people were buried, a hospital graveyard where the infirm and destitute were buried, and from an Augustinian friary where wealthy sponsors were interred beside rich clergymen. The researchers studied the levels of skeletal trauma in the skeletons, which they say indicated "the hardship end...