20-07-2025
Study finds some medieval Europeans ate horsemeat
People continued eating horsemeat in some parts of medieval Europe even after converting to Christianity, an analysis in the journal Antiquity finds.
The findings challenge prevailing historical narratives that eating horsemeat was considered barbaric or heretical at the time. The study looked at hippophagy, or the eating of horsemeat, and analyzed archaeological evidence from 198 medieval Hungarian settlements, including several in what are now Austria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia.
