medieval

A beggar’s book outworths a noble’s blood. —Henry VIII, Act I, Scene I Above the piano in our living room hangs a painting by the French neo-impressionist Jan Bonal. It is a pointillist Parisian street scene, executed much…

The white arrow points to suspected cancer metastases from the spine of a skeleton unearthed from a medieval cemetery. Photo: Jenna Dittmar/University of CambridgeCancer may have been a bigger menace in medieval times than previously…

This is, in part, down to longer life expectancies, habits like smoking, and exposure to tumor-inducing chemicals post-industrial revolution.However, new research published in the journal Cancer on medieval skeletons has suggested that…