In an era marked by strict patriarchal norms, women developed creative methods to protect their bodily autonomy, often using knowledge of plants and natural concoctions passed down through generations ...

Paul Muldoon and Kamala Sankaram’s new opera Custom of the Coast gives voice to Halappanavar and Bonny in powerful narratives ...

Women contributed more extensively to Medieval manuscript production — a task usually delegated to monks — than previously thought, according to a new study. At least 110,000 hand-written ...

Art History Women Played a Pivotal Role as Scribes of Medieval Manuscripts, Research Reveals More than 110,000 manuscripts were made by women, a far greater number than previously thought.

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 ...

A total of 254 were linked to female scribes, with 204 featuring the names of the women themselves. This comes out to roughly 1.1 percent of the Benedictine database’s books.

A total of 41 skeletons have been excavated so far, the majority of which belong to women who appear to have had a tough existence working in agriculture, he said.

Archaeologists working at a site in south Wales have uncovered dozens of skeletons – mostly women – which offer a “window into a really poorly understood period of history.” Dating from ...