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

For the vast majority of medieval Europeans— about 85%— work meant farming. Peasant women worked alongside men doing almost exactly the same jobs in the fields.

Most medieval thinking about women, she points out, was “written by men, for men, based on readings of work by men.” From Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas, the male body was considered the human ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 What 15th-Century Lovers Wrote in Their Valentines One of the oldest Valentine's in the world proves chivalry wasn't always dead.

This is the world of Buhurt, modern medieval battle where men and women wearing up to 100 pounds of armor slash and hammer each other with blunted steel swords, axes and maces until someone goes ...

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.

The British Library’s breathtaking new exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, brings to life the experiences, stories and voices of women from the distant past.