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.

Known as poulaines, pointy leather shoes were the height of fashion in 14th century Britain. Medieval men and women about town, however, paid a high price for their fancy footwear: They got bunions.

It was a controversial fashion choice, with one 1388 English poem lamenting that men could no longer kneel in prayer because of the long beaks on their shoes. Charles V of France banned poulaines ...

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 ...

Fashion for Pointy Shoes Unleashed a Wave of Bunions in Medieval England Shoe pointiness would eventually became so extreme that in 1463 King Edward IV passed a law limiting toe-point length to ...

A friar who may have been the victim of a horse-and-cart hit-and-run. Those are just two examples of the remains of 314 people excavated from three very different medieval burial sites in ...

“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.

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 ...

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.

Known as poulaines, pointy leather shoes were the height of fashion in 14th century Britain. Medieval men and women about town, however, paid a high price for their fancy footwear: They got bunions.