Medieval friars were twice as likely to be riddled with intestinal parasites as townspeople because they ... the team could tell which graves belonged to friars from the remains of their clothing.

A new analysis of remains from medieval Cambridge shows that local Augustinian friars were almost twice as likely as the city’s general population to be infected by intestinal parasites. This is ...

Archaeologists find that m edieval friars had a higher rate of parasitic infections than the average population.. In the days before modern medicine, life was tough for nearly everyone. European ...

“The friars of medieval Cambridge appear to have been riddled with parasites,” said study lead author Dr Piers Mitchell from Cambridge’s Department of Archaeology.

Circa 1500, a sketch of a medieval friar preaching to his congregation. Such a friar would have had better access to fresh produce and clean, running water than his followers.

When we think of medieval friars, we may well picture Robin Hood’s jolly Friar Tuck, known for his rotund figure and love of food and drink. But it turns out some of these monks were full of ...

Aug. 19 (UPI) --The remains of dozens of medieval British Augustine friars discovered by the University of Cambridge were plagued with twice the parasitic intestinal worms of the general ...

Medieval friars were plagued with parasites - study Researchers from the University of Cambridge's Department of Archeology showed that many people in medieval Europe died from parasitic infections.

Credit: Shutterstock What was life like back in medieval England? You might think that the learned friars who lived in the town of Cambridge—scholars, with access to innovations like latrines and ...

Medieval friars were ‘riddled with parasites’, study suggests They were were almost twice as likely as Cambridge’s general population to be infected by intestinal parasites, experts said.