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 ...

Dating from the Early Medieval era, which ran from 400 to 1100 AD, the skeletons are from “a period which is very poorly documented in historical sources, and for which we have comparatively few ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Since roughly 75,000 of the 10 million medieval manuscripts have survived to modern times, the researchers posit that around 8,000 manuscripts copied by women are still in existence.

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 ...

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.