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Yeh, Hui-Yuan - Mitchell, Piers D., "Parasites and Baltic crusading in medieval Riga: insights into disease, diet and hygiene", dins: Pluskowski, Aleksander (ed.), Ecologies of Crusading, Colonization and Religious Conversion in the Medieval Baltic: Terra Sacra II, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019, pp. 121-126.

Resum

Detecting the intestinal parasites of past populations helps us not only to understand the diseases with which people suffered, but also the kinds of food they ate, they way they prepared their food, and the efficacy of their sanitation practices. It is clear that people living different lifestyles in different environments would have varied in their susceptibility to diseases in the past. Here we describe how we have analysed the faecal remains from inside a fourteenth century latrine from the city of Riga, and go on to interpret the results to improve our knowledge of the lives of the people who lived there. We then contrast our findings with those in other parts of Europe to show how the people of medieval Riga suffered significantly with fish tapeworm as a consequence of their cultural approach to food.

Matèries

Medicina - Dietètica i higiene
Guerra

URL

https:/​/​www.academia.edu/​40454692/​Yeh_H.-Y._Mitchel ...