Saturday 18th October 2014, Rye College
The Hazards of Life and Causes of Death in Late Medieval England
Professor Carole Rawcliffe, University of East Anglia
‘Poky pigges and stynkynge makerels’: Food Standards and Urban Health in Late Medieval England
Dr Simon Roffey
An Archaeology of Disease: Leprosy and Leprosaria in Medieval England
Professor Tom James, University of Winchester
The Black Death: Fact or Fiction?
Lunch
Professor Tony Waldron, University College London
The Heath (and Death) of Children in Medieval England
Dr Rebecca Oakes, University of Cambridge
Growing pains: adolescent life experiences and expectancy of medieval scholars
Professor Michael Hicks, University of Winchester
The Incidence of Accidents: Broken Bones and Death by Misadventure in the Proofs of Age