Ole Jørgen Benedictow

• Brødholt, Elin Therese; Gautvik, Kaare M; Benedictow, Ole Jørgen; Günther, Clara-Cecilie; Sjøvold, Torstein & Holck, Per Erling (2022). Female skeletal health and socioeconomic status in medieval Norway (11th–16th centuries AD): Analysis of bone mineral density and stature. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. ISSN 1047-482X. p. 83–93. doi: 10.1002/oa.3178. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Little is known about the possible impact of socioeconomic status on bone health in medieval Norway. We measured bone mineral density in the skeletal remains of 101 females from five medieval burial sites in Eastern Norway representing distinct socioeconomic groups by comparing results from dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and osteological analysis. Young adult females of high status were taller than parish population females (5.3 cm, p = 0.01), although their femoral neck bone mineral density did not differ significantly between the two groups (p = 0.127). We found that the parish population females had a significantly higher occurrence of osteopenia and osteoporosis in old adulthood (p = 0.003), with an estimated disease risk of 0.53 versus 0.16 in the high-status group, possibly related to a lower attained maximum bone mineral density. We discuss environmental and genetic factors in light of relevant research literature on life in medieval Norway and offer an explanation for the significant taller stature among high-status females and the higher risk for osteopenia/osteoporosis in the parish population. This work adds to our knowledge of young adult bone mineral density and bone loss in relation to socioeconomic status in a medieval female population of Norway.

• Benedictow, Ole Jørgen (2019). Biraben's lists of the plague epidemics of the second plague pandemic, 1346-c. 1690: problems, basis, uses. Annales de Démographie Historique. ISSN 0066-2062. 138(2), p. 213–223. doi: 10.3917/adh.138.0213.
• Benedictow, Ole Jørgen (2019). Epidemiology of Plague: Problems with the Use of Mathematical Epidemiological Models in Plague Research and the Question of Transmission by Human Fleas and Lice. Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology. ISSN 1712-9532. 2019:1542024, p. 1–20. doi: 10.1155/2019/1542024.
• Cesana, D.; Benedictow, Ole Jørgen & Bianucci, Raffaella (2017). The origin and early spread of the Black Death in Italy: first evidence of plague victims from 14th-century Liguria (northern Italy). Anthropological Science. ISSN 0918-7960. 125(1), p. 15–24. doi: 10.1537/ase.161011.
• Bianucci, Raffaella; Benedictow, Ole Jørgen; Fornaciari, Gino & Giuffra, Valentina (2013). Quinto Tiberio Angelerio and New Measures for Controlling Plague in 16th-Century Alghero, Sardinia. Emerging Infectious Diseases. ISSN 1080-6040. 19(9), p. 1478–1483. doi: 10.3201/eid.1909.120311.
• Benedictow, Ole Jørgen (2013). Yersinia pestis, the Bacterium of Plague, Arose in East Asia. Did it Spread Westwards via the Silk Roads, the Chinese Maritime Expeditions of Zheng He or over the Vast Eurasian Populations of Sylvatic (Wild) Rodents? Journal of Asian history. ISSN 0021-910X. 47(1), p. 1–31. doi: 10.13173/jasiahist.47.1.0001.
• Benedictow, Ole Jørgen (2005). The black death - The greatest catastrophe ever. History Today. ISSN 0018-2753. 55.

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• Benedictow, Ole Jørgen (2022). The Complete History of Plague in Norway, 1348-1654: The Second Pandemic. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 9781527583047. 722 p.
• Pecorelli, S; Atlante, G; Benedictow, Ole Jørgen & Mancuso, S (1999). 7th Biennial Meetin of the International Gynecologic Cancer Society. Monduzzi Editore. International Proceedings Division.
• Pecorelli, S; Atlante, G; Benedictow, Ole Jørgen & Mancuso, S (1999). 7th Biennial Meeting of the International Gynecologic Cancer Society. Monduzzi Editore. International Proceedings Division.
• Benedictow, Ole Jørgen (1995). Veier til vår tid, Norges og verdenshistorie før 1850. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 82-00-40842-6.

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