Medieval women’s lives were “more vibrant than people expect,” says lead curator Eleanor Jackson, “and [visitors] will be surprised by the sheer variety of roles” that they occupied in ...

In cases of rape and sexual violence, women had few other avenues for seeking justice. Tucked within the Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen and the Bavarian State Library in Munich, rare medieval ...

In “Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife,” the scholar Hetta Howes presents a history of medieval women’s lives as told through the prism of four exceptional individuals.

A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 to 1626 CE were copied by female scribes, with a probable total ...

In the medieval period, prescriptive literature warned women of the dangers of anger – one of seven deadly sins. Women’s anger was seen to confirm their inherent weakness and inability to ...

How Medieval Women Expressed Their ‘Forbidden’ Emotions Upper-class women used letters and embroidery to reflect on their inner lives. Pragya Agarwal, The Conversation. March 18, 2024.

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 ...

At least 110,000 hand-written manuscripts produced in Latin Roman Catholic Europe between 400 and 1500 CE were copied by women, more than previously believed, claims a study published in Nature ...

The image from Wellcome Apocalypse, 1420. Wellcome Collection. The image is an example of two women discussing intimate worries regarding sexual intercourse, miscarriages, and problems in conceiving.

Archaeologists working at a site in south Wales have uncovered dozens of skeletons – mostly women ... Dating from the Early Medieval era, which ran from 400 to 1100 AD, ...

The document is currently on view as part of the exhibition “Medieval Women: In Their Own Words” at the British Library in London through March 2.

The British Library’s yearlong digitization of nearly 100 manuscripts related to medieval and Renaissance women provided the inspiration for “In Their Own Words.”While searching the ...