In “Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife,” the scholar Hetta Howes presents a history of medieval women’s lives as told through the prism of four exceptional individuals.

Many women, including the mystics Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich, used meditation on the Passion of Christ to develop and strengthen their relationship with God. At the very thought of God’s ...

395 Medieval Women Sing the Divine: Women Mystics and Poets of Non-Christian Faiths. The paper by Rituparna Das has been withdrawn. 399 Pearl's Gardens: Ecocritical and Environmental Humanities ...

Medieval women’s lives were “more vibrant than people expect,” says lead curator Eleanor Jackson, “and [visitors] will be surprised by the sheer variety of roles” that they occupied in ...

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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 ...

In cases of rape and sexual violence, women had few other avenues for seeking justice. Tucked within the Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen and the Bavarian State Library in Munich, rare medieval ...

Archaeologists working at a site in south Wales have uncovered dozens of skeletons – mostly women ... Dating from the Early Medieval era, which ran from 400 to 1100 AD, ...

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. The show covers the ...

Medieval mystics drank pus, ate lice and starved themselves – for a very good reason Were holy women of the Middle Ages touched by the divine, possessed by the devil – or, worse, making it all up?

These Rare Artifacts Tell Medieval Women’s Stories in Their Own Words A new exhibition at the British Library explores the public, private and spiritual lives of such figures as Joan of Arc ...

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. The show covers the period ...