In a recent study, scientists have made remarkable strides in understanding medieval diets through an unexpected source: ...

Life in the early Middle Ages, we’re usually told, was nasty, brutish, unpleasant and short. Picture a medieval scene — Monty Python’s knights clip-clopping by with their coconut shells, say, or the ...

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Diluted wine is a revelation. It tastes a lot like a Vitamin water—fruity and sugary, in a cloudy, unspecific way—but alcoholic. Manageably alcoholic. I drank diluted wine for lunch and dinner, I was ...

Scientists from the University of Bristol have uncovered, for the first time, definitive evidence that determines what types of food medieval peasants ate and how they managed their animals. Using ...

Medieval peasants mainly ate stews of meat and vegetables, along with dairy products such as cheese, according to a study of old cooking pots. Researchers analysed food residues from the remains of ...

People continued eating horsemeat in some parts of medieval Europe even after converting to Christianity, an analysis in the journal Antiquity finds. The findings challenge prevailing historical ...

BRISTOL, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Bristol, analysis of food remains recovered from the medieval Jewish quarter in historic Oxford suggests that the community ...

Researchers investigated the diet of people buried in the Ii Hamina, Northern Finland, cemetery from the 15th to the 17th centuries by analysing isotopes in the bones of the deceased. Isotopes ...