Medieval mystics drank pus, ate lice and starved themselves – for a very good reason Were holy women of the Middle Ages touched by the divine, possessed by the devil – or, worse, making it all up?

Many women, including the mystics Margery Kempe and Julian of ... Even some of the more bizarre behaviour recorded from medieval mystics, such as Catherine of Siena’s drinking the pus from the ...

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 ...

Robert Rouse will not participate in this roundtable. 395 Medieval Women Sing the Divine: Women Mystics and Poets of Non-Christian Faiths. The paper by Rituparna Das has been withdrawn. 399 Pearl's ...

Women’s histories are much harder to find, but they are there when you look for them.” The British Library’s yearlong digitization of nearly 100 manuscripts related to medieval and ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...