Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wealthy individuals often purchased plots as close to their church as possible as a sign of social status. Wealth confers ...

A researcher in the Global Irish Studies Initiative at Georgetown University (GIS) explored the early medieval history of animal disease in Ireland at a talk March 27. Singer said that although other ...

In medieval Denmark, death could double as a display of status. The closer your grave lay to a church wall or inside a monastery, the more it likely cost. Wealth followed you into the ground. That ...

Leprosy didn't prevent rich medieval families from being buried in the most prestigious graves, reveals new research. Wealthy Danes showed off their affluence even in death by being laid to rest ...

The Western inheritance: Greek and Roman ideas about disease -- Medieval diseases and responses -- The Great Plague pandemic -- New diseases and transatlantic exchanges -- Continuity and change: magic ...