Pregnancy in the Middle Ages was anything but easy. In this video, we explore what expectant mothers faced - from medical ...

Childbirth isn't for the faint-hearted at the best of times, let alone in the medieval period. What was a birthing room like at this time in history?

Medieval Women: In their Own Words spans the four centuries from 1100 to 1500.This broad swathe of history is the British ...

But while sexual and reproductive violence is somewhat accurate for the medieval age, so are myriad other things that seem to fall off the storyboard when it’s time to add authenticity.

Religion Rare medieval Bible returns to Israel for public exhibit after centuries-long journey Dating back to 1312, the Bible showcases Jewish, Islamic and Christian artistic influences ...

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.

Set in 1313 AD Europe, Medieval: Chronicles has players assume the role of a created character with little to no social influence on the world around them. It’s the player’s goal from the ...

Archaeologists were astonished to uncover hundreds of skeletons while excavating the grounds of a British university, which once hosted a medieval church demolished in the 1650s.

Meet the 'common' people of Medieval Cambridge: From a plague-survivor named Wat to a woman called Eadgifu who died in childbirth - skeleton analysis reveals the spectrum of poverty during the ...

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 ...

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