Healthcare in the Middle Ages Archives - Page 7 of 7

by Sandra Alvarez February 7, 2011

Beggars, Vagrants and Romanies : Repression and Persecution in Portuguese Society (14th–18th Centuries)

Beggars, Vagrants and Romanies : Repression and Persecution in Portuguese Society (14th–18th Centuries) Abreu, Laurinda Hygiea Internationalis : An Interdisciplinary Journal for the History…

by Medievalists.net January 4, 2009

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Stature as a criterion of the nutritional level of Viking Age Icelanders

Stature as a criterion of the nutritional level of Viking Age Icelanders By Jon Steffensen Thridji Vikingafundur [Third Viking Congress], edited by Kristján Eldjárn Ritsjóri…

by Medievalists.net September 25, 2008

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Enamel Defects, Well-being and Mortality in a Medieval Danish Village

Biological anthropologists are in the unique position of being able to analyze human skeletal remains in order to reconstruct health, nutrition, environmental stress, disease and mortality experiences, in past populations. Skeletal assemblages have the potential to tell us about many types of individuals – rich, poor, male, female, young, old, healthy and sick.