Who needs crowded bars and long nightclub lines when you can have dinner and a show? Medieval Times is quickly becoming the ...

Self-tormenting practices were all the rage in ancient Byzantium, from wearing chains to living on top of small pillars—and ...

W hen people talk about women in the workplace, more often than not they discuss it as a new phenomenon. Women, we are given to understand, emerged to gain a foothold in the office as a part of ...

The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society. By Eleanor Janega. W.W. Norton. 232 pages. We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site.

NO HIDING PLACE—William Seabrook —Lippincott ($3). With a clank of chains and the mingled aroma of voodoo incense and roasting human flesh, William Buehler Seabrook reveals a story of his ...

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 ...

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.

This is the world of modern medieval battle, a human demolition derby where men and women wearing up to 100 pounds of armor slash and hammer one another with blunted steel swords, axes and maces ...

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.