Pathways to the medieval hospital: collective osteobiographies of poverty and charity
(2023)
Journal Article
Inskip, S., Cessford, C., Dittmar, J., Rose, A., Mulder, B., O'Connell, T., …Robb, J. (2023). Pathways to the medieval hospital: collective osteobiographies of poverty and charity. Antiquity, 97(396), 1581-1597. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.167
Medieval hospitals were founded to provide charity, but poverty and infirmity were broad and socially determined categories and little is known about the residents of these institutions and the pathways that led them there. Combining skeletal, isotop... Read More about Pathways to the medieval hospital: collective osteobiographies of poverty and charity.