Apeike Umolu explores what the University Library’s latest exhibition can teach us about female healthcare in medieval ...

As I lugged the calf-puller to the heifer corral, I realized it could be used in a Medieval torture chamber. It’s a heavy brace that sits low on a cow’s hips with a long pole and a ratchet.

The film-maker was taken aback by an incident at a hospital as she prepared to make her second feature. Everyday life in ...

A queen without a crown, a love never given a chance. The tragic fate of King Matthias Corvinus’s first wife, Catherine of ...

Her second project focuses on reproductive ethics. Here she argues that so-called alternative approaches to childbirth (home birth and midwifery care, for example) can be important vehicles for ...

Every good book takes you to a different place or time. Few books mix this magic more strongly than those whose characters ...

Most tragically, she probably died in childbirth: The tiny bones of a fetus ... Sayer explains how the people of medieval Britain fused cultures to create their own. Gently unfolding a protective ...

Because life expectancy was generally lower in the past – with people dying unexpectedly of childbirth ... At 12 years olds, in the medieval period, girls might be married at 12, and in the ...

If we believe medieval morality tales, only a tyrant would dare to seek ... it still sometimes takes a backseat to a woman’s intuition.’ The Childbirth Bible tells us that ‘this intuitive feeling is ...

Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World, which opened at Cambridge University ... fertility and pregnancy, childbirth and caring for newborns. This reflects not only the perils women faced as ...