Aug. 19 (UPI) --The remains of dozens of medieval British Augustine friars discovered by the University of Cambridge were plagued with twice the parasitic intestinal worms of the general ...

When we think of medieval friars, we may well picture Robin Hood’s jolly Friar Tuck, known for his rotund figure and love of food and drink. But it turns out some of these monks were full of ...

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“The friars of medieval Cambridge appear to have been riddled with parasites,” the study's lead author Dr. Piers Mitchell from Cambridge's Department of Archeology said, “This is the first ...

Medieval friars were “riddled with parasites”, new research suggests. An analysis of remains from Cambridge suggests local Augustinian friars were almost twice as likely as the city’s general ...