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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A History of the Chola Empire’, the historian Anirudh Kanisetti documents the rise and fall of the Chola royal women, be it ...

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 ...

As a young girl with no say over much of her life, the Damsel of Cyprus is a reminder of how medieval women continued to find ways to overcome the limitations placed on them.