Scientists have ingeniously built a 3D digital reconstruction of a 'beautiful' 14th century woman and a cleric with a cleft palate - both of whom will talk to visitors at an attraction in Scotland.

Beautiful medieval illuminated manuscripts have for centuries thought to have been the work of male scribes, experts say. This image shows books in the monastery museum of the Orthodox Church of ...

In the medieval ages, nuns also produced the famously laborious and beautiful books. And some of these women must have been very good, if they were using pigment as precious and rare as ultramarine.

What’s So Controversial About a Medieval Nun’s Teeth? How an archaeological discovery involving lapis lazuli and an 11th-century skeleton turned into an online drama ...

A NEW project celebrating a ‘trailblazing’ medieval woman in York has gone on display. A project by York Learning, Kyra Women’s Project and All Saints Church in North Street has brought the ...

She was evil because she was beautiful, and beautiful because she was evil. Being a good-looking man was fundamentally good news. Being a handsome woman, by definition, spelt trouble.

Many have traced the contemporary conception of a mermaid to the ancient Greek figure of the siren, despite the fact that ...

Inspired by the true story of the first woman condemned as a witch in medieval Ireland, “Bright I Burn,” by Molly Aitken, features a protagonist as dangerous as she is beguiling.