Health and History in Medieval England
Academic Articles
Publication of the "After the Plague" project is ongoing. These are publications to date, with more in the works.
Robb, J. (in press).
Osteobiography: the next generation. In Osteobiographical Narratives in Mesoamerica: Revealing the Lives and Deaths of Ancient Individuals, edited by G. Wrobel and A. Cucina. Tallahassee: University Press of Florida.
Inskip, S., Cessford, C., Dittmar, J., Rose, A., Mulder, B. O’Connell, T., Mitchell, P., Scheib, C., Price, M., Stock, J. and Robb, J. 2023.
Pathways to the Medieval Hospital: Collective osteobiographies of poverty and charity. Antiquity in press.
Robb, J. (2023).
The end of the world, again. In The Power of Nature: Archaeology and human-environmental dynamics, edited by M. Smith. Denver: University of Colorado Press. Pp. 256-267.
Cessford, C., Scheib, C.A., Guellil, M., Keller, M., Alexander, C., Inskip, S.A., & Robb, J.E. (2021).
Beyond Plague Pits: Using Genetics to Identify Responses to Plague in Medieval Cambridgeshire. European Journal of Archaeology: https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2021.19.
Dittmar, J. M., Mitchell, P. D., Cessford, C., Inskip, S. A., & Robb, J. E. (2021).
Fancy shoes and painful feet: Hallux valgus and fracture risk in medieval Cambridge, England. International journal of Paleopathology, S1879-9817(21)00028-0. . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2021.04.012
Dittmar, J. M., Mitchell, P. D., Cessford, C., Inskip, S. A., & Robb, J. E. (2021).
Medieval injuries: Skeletal trauma as an indicator of past living conditions and hazard risk in Cambridge, England. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 175(3), 626–645. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24225
Dittmar, J. M., Mitchell, P. D., Jones, P. M., Mulder, B., Inskip, S. A., Cessford, C., and Robb, J. (2021).
Gout and 'Podagra' in medieval Cambridge, England. International Journal of Paleopathology, 33, 170-181. doi:10.1016/j.ijpp.2021.04.007
Dittmar, J. M., Mulder, B., Tran, A., Mitchell, P. D., Jones, P. M., Inskip, S. A., Cessford, C., Robb, J. (2023).
Caring for the injured: Exploring the immediate and long-term consequences of injury in medieval Cambridge, England. International Journal of Paleopatholology, 40, 7-19. doi:10.1016/j.ijpp.2022.07.004
Hui, R., Scheib, C. L., D’Atanasio, E., Inskip, S. A., Cessford, C., Biagini, S. A., ... , Robb., J., Kivisild, T. (2023).
Medieval social landscape through the genetic history of Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death. BioXriv. doi:10.1101/2023.03.03.531048
Inskip S.A., Scheib C., Kivisild T., Cessford C., Wohns A.W., and Robb J.E. (2019).
Evaluating Macroscopic Sex Estimation Methods using Genetically Sexed Archaeological Material: The Medieval Skeletal Collection from St John’s Divinity School, Cambridge. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 168:340-351. DOI:10.1002/ajpa.23753.
Inskip, S., Cessford, C., Dittmar, J., Rose, A., Mulder, B. O’Connell, T., Mitchell, P., Scheib, C., Price, M., Stock, J. and Robb, J. (2023).
Pathways to the Hospital: Collective osteobiographies, medieval poverty and medieval charity. Antiquity in press.
Keller M., Spyrou M.A., Scheib C.A., Neumann G.U., Kröpelin A., Haas-Gebhard B., Päffgen B., Haberstroh J., Lacomba A.R., Raynaud C., Cessford C., Durand R., Stadler P., Nägele K., Bates J.S., Trautmann B., Inskip S.A., Peters J., Robb J.E., Kivisild T., Castex D., McCormick M., Bos K.I., Harbeck M., Herbig A., Krause J. (2019).
Ancient Yersinia pestis genomes from across Western Europe reveal early diversification during the First Pandemic (541-750 CE). PNAS. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1820447116.
Kivisild T., Castex D., Lösch S., Harbeck M., Herbig A., Bos K.I. and Krause J. (2019)
A phylogeography of the second plague pandemic revealed through the analysis of historical Yersinia pestis genomes. Nature Communications.
Mitchell, P. D., Dittmar, J. M., Mulder, B., Inskip, S., Littlewood, A., Cessford, C., Robb, J. E. (2021).
The prevalence of cancer in Britain before industrialization. Cancer, 127(17), 3054–3059. https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.33615
Robb, J., Cessford, C., Dittmar, J., Inskip, S. A., Mitchell, P. D. (2021).
The greatest health problem of the Middle Ages? Estimating the burden of disease in medieval England. International journal of Paleopathology, 34, 101–112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2021.06.011
Mulder B., Stock J.T., Saers J.P.P., Inskip S.A., Cessford C., Robb J.E. (2020).
Intrapopulation variation in lower limb trabecular architecture. American Journal of Biological Anthropol 173(1):112-129. doi:10.1002/ajpa.24058
Robb J., Inskip S.A., Scheib C., Kivisild T., Cessford C., Wohns A.W., Rose A., O’Connell T., Dittmar J., Mitchell P., Stock J., Mulder B. (2019).
Osteobiography: the history of the body as real bottom-line history. Bioarchaeology International 3:16-31.
Hosek, L., and Robb, J. (2019)
Osteobiography: A Platform for Bioarchaeological Research. Bioarchaeology International, 3(1), 1-15. doi:10.5744/bi.2019.1005
Scheib C., Hui R., D’Anatasio E., Wohns A.W., Inskip S.A., Rose A., Cessford C., O’Connell T., Robb J.E., Evans C., Pattern R., Kivisild T. (2019).
East Anglian Early Neolithic Monument burial linked to contemporary Megaliths. Annals of Human Biology 43:145-149.