Lluís Lloveras is a researcher in the department of Archaeology and History at the University of Barcelona, from which he obtained a PhD. He is a specialist in zooarchaeology and taphonomy, focusing on the procurement of animal foods, past animal hunting and husbandry economies and examining the role of animals in past societies beyond serving as food, employing, in particular, neotaphonomic research, geometric morphometrics, isotopic analysis, animal palaeopathological and forensic taphonomic analysis. Carme Rissech is a senior lecturer in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain and holds a PhD from the University Autonomous of Barcelona. She is an expert in the fields of palaeoanthropology and forensic anthropology, employing interdisciplinary approaches combining human bone analysis with documentary sources, histological and biomolecular analysis and medicine. Jordi Nadal is a reader in History and Archaeology at the University of Barcelona, from which he obtained his PhD. He specializes in zooarchaeology and taphonomy, focusing on various aspects of past humananimal relationship. He is also interested in the application of neotaphonomic models to better understand the origin of small prey accumulations in prehistoric archaeological sites. Philip Banks is a retired lecturer in English as a Foreign Language at the University of Barcelona, now an independent researcher in medieval history. He obtained a PhD in archaeology and history from Nottingham University, where he studied urban transformations between the 4th and 13th centuries in Catalonia, especially the city of Barcelona. He has translated archaeological and historical texts from Spanish and Catalan to English and collaborated with museums and archaeological services on projects concerning medieval documents and the archaeological interpretation of historical sources, especially as regards townscapes and the periurban zones of medieval cities.

• List of contributorsList of reviewersIntroduction by the editorsPart 1: State of health and human remains1. Unusual and exuberant dental calculus in an 18–19th-century nun from Santa Catalina de Siena, Belmonte (Cuenca, Spain): oral/joint dysfunction or facial paralysis?Laura González-Garrido, Álvaro M. Monge Calleja, Natasa Sarkic, Sofía Zdral, António Pereira Coutinho, Lídia Catarino, Jesús Herrerín López, Ana Luisa Santos 2. Disabled individuals in a Belgian medieval Cistercian monastic community: a palaeopathological perspectiveMathilde Daumas, Caroline Polet, Stéphane Louryan3. A high-ranking cleric with arterial calcification: vascular disease in medieval England.David Bennett-Jones, Louise LoePart 2: Life pathways in monastic contexts4. Unveiling the past. Bioanthropological insights into life and death at the friary of Santa Caterina (Barcelona) in the 13th to15th centuriesAndrea Sanz, Andreu Falcó, Lluís Lloveras, Carme Rissech5. The early medieval necropolis of the Former Municipal Courts of Barcelona: a unique discoveryMarta Merino, Carme Rissech6. Bioanthropological study of human remains from funerary unit UF228 (14th to 15th centuries) at the archaeological site of the friary of Santa Caterina (Barcelona)Carme Rissech, Marina Gascà, Anna Llauradó7. The cloister of the monastery of Santa Maria de Roses in the early modern period Study of a secular funerary space in a religious centre.Marc Bouzas, Neus Coromina, Lluís Palahí, Jordi Vivo8. Life and death of the Poor Clare nuns of the Holy Trinity in Monte Sant'Angelo (Puglia, Southern Italy): archaeological, anthropological, pathological, botanical, entomological, textile, chemical and documentary dataGinevra Panzarino, Elena Varotto, Francesco Maria Galassi, Agustín Pastor, Gianni Gallello, Stefano Vanin, Giuseppina Carta, Francesco Breglia, Annalisa Biselli, Donatella Pian, Elena Dellù9. The tomb of Prioress Jerònima de Gort (1586-1601). An interdisciplinary approach to the female Hospitaller Monastery of Santa Maria d'Alguaire.Maria Soler, Walter Alegria, Izaskun Ambrosio, Sílvia Marín, Araceli Coll10. ‘The Greatest Evil is Physical Pain.’ An Exploration of Suffering from a Medieval Austin Friary in Cambridge, UK using an ‘Avatar Model’.Benjamin Neil11. The ossuary of the Teutonic monastery of San Leonardo di Siponto in Manfredonia (Puglia, Southern Italy): anthropological and palaeopathological data for the reconstruction of the monastic community.Ginevra Panzarino, Elena Varotto, Francesco Maria Galassi, Donatella Pian, Elena Dellù12. The everyday life of a female religious community from a multidisciplinary approach: the convent of Santa Clara (Pontevedra, Spain).María Martín-Seijo, Carlos Fernández-Rodríguez, Eduardo González Gómez de Agüero, Rafael M. Rodríguez Martínez, Israel Picón PlatasPart 3: Animals in the monastic environment13. Paw prints in the cloister. The study of ichnites on tiles from the Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes (Barcelona, Spain)Jordi Nadal, Philip Banks, Anna Castellano-Tresserra, Santiago Riera, Marina Fernández-Liarte, Lluís Lloveras.14. Bilateral skull asymmetries in two ancient semi-feral horse breeds and their implications for archaeological equine studies. How can help us in monastic contexts?Pere M. Parés-Casanova, Nuno Carolino, José V. Leite, Ruy Dantas, Susana Lopes, Abu B. Siddiq15. Estimating the withers height and body length of domestic cattle from head values. Its applications to archaeological samples.Arcesio Salamanca-Carreño, Pere M. Parés-Casanova, Germán Martínez Correal, Mauricio Vélez-Terranova, David Eduardo Rangel, Abu B. Siddiq

Select Guide Rating

Lluís Lloveras is a researcher in the department of Archaeology and History at the University of Barcelona, from which he obtained a PhD. He is a specialist in zooarchaeology and taphonomy, focusing on the procurement of animal foods, past animal hunting and husbandry economies and examining the role of animals in past societies beyond serving as food, employing, in particular, neotaphonomic research, geometric morphometrics, isotopic analysis, animal palaeopathological and forensic taphonomic analysis. Carme Rissech is a senior lecturer in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain and holds a PhD from the University Autonomous of Barcelona. She is an expert in the fields of palaeoanthropology and forensic anthropology, employing interdisciplinary approaches combining human bone analysis with documentary sources, histological and biomolecular analysis and medicine. Jordi Nadal is a reader in History and Archaeology at the University of Barcelona, from which he obtained his PhD. He specializes in zooarchaeology and taphonomy, focusing on various aspects of past humananimal relationship. He is also interested in the application of neotaphonomic models to better understand the origin of small prey accumulations in prehistoric archaeological sites. Philip Banks is a retired lecturer in English as a Foreign Language at the University of Barcelona, now an independent researcher in medieval history. He obtained a PhD in archaeology and history from Nottingham University, where he studied urban transformations between the 4th and 13th centuries in Catalonia, especially the city of Barcelona. He has translated archaeological and historical texts from Spanish and Catalan to English and collaborated with museums and archaeological services on projects concerning medieval documents and the archaeological interpretation of historical sources, especially as regards townscapes and the periurban zones of medieval cities.

• List of contributorsList of reviewersIntroduction by the editorsPart 1: State of health and human remains1. Unusual and exuberant dental calculus in an 18–19th-century nun from Santa Catalina de Siena, Belmonte (Cuenca, Spain): oral/joint dysfunction or facial paralysis?Laura González-Garrido, Álvaro M. Monge Calleja, Natasa Sarkic, Sofía Zdral, António Pereira Coutinho, Lídia Catarino, Jesús Herrerín López, Ana Luisa Santos 2. Disabled individuals in a Belgian medieval Cistercian monastic community: a palaeopathological perspectiveMathilde Daumas, Caroline Polet, Stéphane Louryan3. A high-ranking cleric with arterial calcification: vascular disease in medieval England.David Bennett-Jones, Louise LoePart 2: Life pathways in monastic contexts4. Unveiling the past. Bioanthropological insights into life and death at the friary of Santa Caterina (Barcelona) in the 13th to15th centuriesAndrea Sanz, Andreu Falcó, Lluís Lloveras, Carme Rissech5. The early medieval necropolis of the Former Municipal Courts of Barcelona: a unique discoveryMarta Merino, Carme Rissech6. Bioanthropological study of human remains from funerary unit UF228 (14th to 15th centuries) at the archaeological site of the friary of Santa Caterina (Barcelona)Carme Rissech, Marina Gascà, Anna Llauradó7. The cloister of the monastery of Santa Maria de Roses in the early modern period Study of a secular funerary space in a religious centre.Marc Bouzas, Neus Coromina, Lluís Palahí, Jordi Vivo8. Life and death of the Poor Clare nuns of the Holy Trinity in Monte Sant'Angelo (Puglia, Southern Italy): archaeological, anthropological, pathological, botanical, entomological, textile, chemical and documentary dataGinevra Panzarino, Elena Varotto, Francesco Maria Galassi, Agustín Pastor, Gianni Gallello, Stefano Vanin, Giuseppina Carta, Francesco Breglia, Annalisa Biselli, Donatella Pian, Elena Dellù9. The tomb of Prioress Jerònima de Gort (1586-1601). An interdisciplinary approach to the female Hospitaller Monastery of Santa Maria d'Alguaire.Maria Soler, Walter Alegria, Izaskun Ambrosio, Sílvia Marín, Araceli Coll10. ‘The Greatest Evil is Physical Pain.’ An Exploration of Suffering from a Medieval Austin Friary in Cambridge, UK using an ‘Avatar Model’.Benjamin Neil11. The ossuary of the Teutonic monastery of San Leonardo di Siponto in Manfredonia (Puglia, Southern Italy): anthropological and palaeopathological data for the reconstruction of the monastic community.Ginevra Panzarino, Elena Varotto, Francesco Maria Galassi, Donatella Pian, Elena Dellù12. The everyday life of a female religious community from a multidisciplinary approach: the convent of Santa Clara (Pontevedra, Spain).María Martín-Seijo, Carlos Fernández-Rodríguez, Eduardo González Gómez de Agüero, Rafael M. Rodríguez Martínez, Israel Picón PlatasPart 3: Animals in the monastic environment13. Paw prints in the cloister. The study of ichnites on tiles from the Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes (Barcelona, Spain)Jordi Nadal, Philip Banks, Anna Castellano-Tresserra, Santiago Riera, Marina Fernández-Liarte, Lluís Lloveras.14. Bilateral skull asymmetries in two ancient semi-feral horse breeds and their implications for archaeological equine studies. How can help us in monastic contexts?Pere M. Parés-Casanova, Nuno Carolino, José V. Leite, Ruy Dantas, Susana Lopes, Abu B. Siddiq15. Estimating the withers height and body length of domestic cattle from head values. Its applications to archaeological samples.Arcesio Salamanca-Carreño, Pere M. Parés-Casanova, Germán Martínez Correal, Mauricio Vélez-Terranova, David Eduardo Rangel, Abu B. Siddiq

Select Guide Rating

Lluís Lloveras is a researcher in the department of Archaeology and History at the University of Barcelona, from which he obtained a PhD. He is a specialist in zooarchaeology and taphonomy, focusing on the procurement of animal foods, past animal hunting and husbandry economies and examining the role of animals in past societies beyond serving as food, employing, in particular, neotaphonomic research, geometric morphometrics, isotopic analysis, animal palaeopathological and forensic taphonomic analysis. Carme Rissech is a senior lecturer in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain and holds a PhD from the University Autonomous of Barcelona. She is an expert in the fields of palaeoanthropology and forensic anthropology, employing interdisciplinary approaches combining human bone analysis with documentary sources, histological and biomolecular analysis and medicine. Jordi Nadal is a reader in History and Archaeology at the University of Barcelona, from which he obtained his PhD. He specializes in zooarchaeology and taphonomy, focusing on various aspects of past humananimal relationship. He is also interested in the application of neotaphonomic models to better understand the origin of small prey accumulations in prehistoric archaeological sites. Philip Banks is a retired lecturer in English as a Foreign Language at the University of Barcelona, now an independent researcher in medieval history. He obtained a PhD in archaeology and history from Nottingham University, where he studied urban transformations between the 4th and 13th centuries in Catalonia, especially the city of Barcelona. He has translated archaeological and historical texts from Spanish and Catalan to English and collaborated with museums and archaeological services on projects concerning medieval documents and the archaeological interpretation of historical sources, especially as regards townscapes and the periurban zones of medieval cities.

• List of contributorsList of reviewersIntroduction by the editorsPart 1: State of health and human remains1. Unusual and exuberant dental calculus in an 18–19th-century nun from Santa Catalina de Siena, Belmonte (Cuenca, Spain): oral/joint dysfunction or facial paralysis?Laura González-Garrido, Álvaro M. Monge Calleja, Natasa Sarkic, Sofía Zdral, António Pereira Coutinho, Lídia Catarino, Jesús Herrerín López, Ana Luisa Santos 2. Disabled individuals in a Belgian medieval Cistercian monastic community: a palaeopathological perspectiveMathilde Daumas, Caroline Polet, Stéphane Louryan3. A high-ranking cleric with arterial calcification: vascular disease in medieval England.David Bennett-Jones, Louise LoePart 2: Life pathways in monastic contexts4. Unveiling the past. Bioanthropological insights into life and death at the friary of Santa Caterina (Barcelona) in the 13th to15th centuriesAndrea Sanz, Andreu Falcó, Lluís Lloveras, Carme Rissech5. The early medieval necropolis of the Former Municipal Courts of Barcelona: a unique discoveryMarta Merino, Carme Rissech6. Bioanthropological study of human remains from funerary unit UF228 (14th to 15th centuries) at the archaeological site of the friary of Santa Caterina (Barcelona)Carme Rissech, Marina Gascà, Anna Llauradó7. The cloister of the monastery of Santa Maria de Roses in the early modern period Study of a secular funerary space in a religious centre.Marc Bouzas, Neus Coromina, Lluís Palahí, Jordi Vivo8. Life and death of the Poor Clare nuns of the Holy Trinity in Monte Sant'Angelo (Puglia, Southern Italy): archaeological, anthropological, pathological, botanical, entomological, textile, chemical and documentary dataGinevra Panzarino, Elena Varotto, Francesco Maria Galassi, Agustín Pastor, Gianni Gallello, Stefano Vanin, Giuseppina Carta, Francesco Breglia, Annalisa Biselli, Donatella Pian, Elena Dellù9. The tomb of Prioress Jerònima de Gort (1586-1601). An interdisciplinary approach to the female Hospitaller Monastery of Santa Maria d'Alguaire.Maria Soler, Walter Alegria, Izaskun Ambrosio, Sílvia Marín, Araceli Coll10. ‘The Greatest Evil is Physical Pain.’ An Exploration of Suffering from a Medieval Austin Friary in Cambridge, UK using an ‘Avatar Model’.Benjamin Neil11. The ossuary of the Teutonic monastery of San Leonardo di Siponto in Manfredonia (Puglia, Southern Italy): anthropological and palaeopathological data for the reconstruction of the monastic community.Ginevra Panzarino, Elena Varotto, Francesco Maria Galassi, Donatella Pian, Elena Dellù12. The everyday life of a female religious community from a multidisciplinary approach: the convent of Santa Clara (Pontevedra, Spain).María Martín-Seijo, Carlos Fernández-Rodríguez, Eduardo González Gómez de Agüero, Rafael M. Rodríguez Martínez, Israel Picón PlatasPart 3: Animals in the monastic environment13. Paw prints in the cloister. The study of ichnites on tiles from the Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes (Barcelona, Spain)Jordi Nadal, Philip Banks, Anna Castellano-Tresserra, Santiago Riera, Marina Fernández-Liarte, Lluís Lloveras.14. Bilateral skull asymmetries in two ancient semi-feral horse breeds and their implications for archaeological equine studies. How can help us in monastic contexts?Pere M. Parés-Casanova, Nuno Carolino, José V. Leite, Ruy Dantas, Susana Lopes, Abu B. Siddiq15. Estimating the withers height and body length of domestic cattle from head values. Its applications to archaeological samples.Arcesio Salamanca-Carreño, Pere M. Parés-Casanova, Germán Martínez Correal, Mauricio Vélez-Terranova, David Eduardo Rangel, Abu B. Siddiq

Select Guide Rating