[MR] some feast ideas! (see end of article): [MEDIEV-L:39579] New monastic diet study

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The UK broadsheet the Guardian today reported a new study by Philippa 
Patrick (of the Institute of Archaeology, UCL) on monastic diet. She has 
been looking at a wide range of bones from monastic cemeteries at Tower 
Hill (*) and Merton and has discovered a great number of them to have 
suffered from disease related to obesity, especially one called 'Dish'.

Apparently, the findings were introduced in a paper at the International 
   Mediaeval Congress in Leeds. Does anyone know any more about this 
study and when/where it will be published? I think it looks potentially 
fascinating.


Link to the Guardian report is here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1261533,00.html