But in the cramped and unforgiving streets of Medieval England, this biological edge vanished. A new study reveals that during this period, men and women had almost identical life expectancies ...

St Brigid may have led the way, but there were other powerful, inspiring and influential women who blazed a trail in Medieval ...

Archaeologists excavating the Almalyk-dere necropolis in Crimea recently uncovered a trove of gold and silver jewelry in ...

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new ...

Most people in medieval society lived ... fields across the village. Life could be hard; if crops failed to produce enough food, people faced starvation. Women in peasant families learnt to ...

as well as the unique ways liturgical manuscripts can inform our understanding of medieval life and thought. In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect ...

The first complete look at the social status and daily life of medieval Jewish women. This volume, an amazing act of historical recovery and reconstruction, offers a comprehensive examination of ...

The seal matrix measures 33mm x 21mm (1.2 x 0.8in) and the Latin inscription on it translates as "Seal of Margerie Pevrel" The discovery of a "not-far-off perfect" medieval artefact "gives life to ...

The Salt of Common Life: Individuality and Choice in the Medieval Town ... a belief in the fundamental individuality of medieval English men and women and a belief in their ability to make choices.