For the great majority of human history, there was no doubt that women were to be understood as workers par excellance. Though this is true across history, the medieval period is a particularly ...

What Was Life Really Like for Women in Medieval Times' Medieval historian Dr Eleanor Janega investigates one of the least recorded aspects of medieval life - working women. But dig deep and you ...

According to 13th and 14th-century legal treatises, judicial duels between men and women only happened in cases of notnunft.The medieval law term describes rape, kidnapping, and sexual assault ...

This epic novel set, like Pillars, in medieval times ... It twists and turns through war, women and the Spanish Inquisition. Feudal-age history is ever-present, and some of the words used by ...

Medieval women were not supposed to be high achievers — at least not in the male arena of fame and fortune. Women, in whatever guise, rarely won recognition, but the four exceptional women in Hetta ...

And according to a first-of-its-kind quantitative review, more than a few of them were penned by women. Experts estimate medieval scribes produced over 10 million manuscripts between 400-1500 CE ...

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Before the first printing press was invented in the 15th century, books had to be made by hand. It was the monks who were usually put to work making parchment and ink, writing out text, and ...

The British Library’s breathtaking new exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, brings to life the experiences, stories and voices of women from the distant past. The show covers the period ...

London CNN — Archaeologists working at a site in south Wales have uncovered dozens of skeletons – mostly women – which offer ... Dating from the Early Medieval era, which ran from 400 ...

But new research published in Science Advances shows that in Medieval England, this wasn’t the case. Researchers found that men and women lived to around the same ages, and life expectancy wasn’t ...