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?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Four Medieval Women Who Rocked. Women, in whatever guise, rarely won recognition, but the four exceptional women in Hetta Howes’s book excelled in public roles that called into question what was ...

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 ...

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 yearlong digitization of nearly 100 manuscripts related to medieval and Renaissance women provided the inspiration for “In Their Own Words.”While searching the ...

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 ...