Peasant women, then, were real Jills of all trades. They might be holding down a family farm as well as a second job on another, or a business on top of their agricultural responsibilities.

There's a lot of back and forth when it comes to how women dress, but if there's one thing that the history of dress codes has taught us is that a woman's body is political, no matter how benign ...

In the 1850s, the women’s dress reform movement advocated for a return to medieval design. The practice continues today.

Medieval women used informal social networks to share health problems and medical advice – just as we do today Published: March 7, 2024 1:17pm EST Pragya Agarwal , Loughborough University ...

Strong, intermediate and non-deformed skulls, from left, from the Early Medieval sites Altenerding and Straubing in Bavaria, Germany. AP BERLIN — The newcomers who arrived in the little farming ...