Monty Python Got It Wrong: 939 Skeletons Challenge Medieval Disease Myths

Leprosy carried powerful stigma in medieval Europe, but new skeletal evidence from Danish cemeteries suggests the sick were not always pushed aside in death. In medieval Denmark, burial location ...
Ancient Origins

Rich Medieval Christians Bought Graves 'Closer to God' Despite Leprosy

The research, published in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, analyzed 939 adult skeletons from five medieval cemeteries in Denmark, dating from approximately 1050 to 1536 AD. The findings ...
IFLScience

Incredibly Rare Record Of Medieval Stand-Up Comedy Show Reveals Monty Python-Esque Joke

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Teatro ECAS finds the funny in ‘Radojka,’ a dark comedy about the morality of faking mortality

Thanks to smart comic timing and witty dialogue, humor never gets lost or weighed down in the play’s underlying morbidity.
Wall Street Journal

Coconuts Still Clopping, ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ Turns 50

After a week of shooting “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” in 1974 the results were clear. Graham Chapman, who starred as King Arthur because nobody else wanted to play the straight man, “said what a ...