There’s also an unapologetically queer energy to much of today’s medieval fashion trend. With the focus being intentional subversion of aesthetics from a time when LGBTQ+ people, women ...

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 ...

Joe Bromley, Fashion Editor 10 March 2025 No one was more surprised than medieval armourer Matthew ... history The most accessible route for women (and brave men) is in the form of jewellery ...

In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn children. These parchment or paper rolls replicated the “girdle relics” of the ...

She adds that lighter skin was idealised in women in medieval England and associated with virginity: "There is often a connection made between brightness of colouring – blonde hair, for example ...

Stained Glass Panel with Aconite Leaves, ca. 1275-1300, Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, gift of Ella Brummer in memory of her husband, Ernest Brummer, 1977.89. Public domain. Studies in ...