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

We all have seen Radha along with shree Krishna in so many temples and know that they are the embodiment of love and the purest form of love We know that they are divine lovers but many of us do not k ...

Texts like Job 36:32 (God “fills his hands with lightning”) and Genesis 9:11 (God’s promise not to flood the Earth again) were taken to mean that human efforts to prevent disasters—like lightning rods ...

Alice Vincent is the bestselling author of books including Rootbound and Why Women Grow. Her latest, Hark, examines how women experience sound, and how having a baby changed how she listened to the ...

The medieval Spanish manuscript showcasing Jewish law, mysticism, and art is now on exhibition at the National Library of Israel.The post Shem Tov Bible returns to Jerusalem for public display ...

The Shem Tov Bible, a stunning 14th-century manuscript created by the renowned kabbalist Rabbi Shem Tov ben Abraham Ibn Gaon, ...

In this video, we explore what it took to survive pregnancy in the Middle Ages – a time when medicine was primitive, risks were high, and childbirth was a life-or-death event. From strange folk ...

Westeros is a brutal and violent place, and more than once Game of Thrones went too far to make sure fans knew it.

My husband and I will soon be celebrating our silver wedding anniversary. Our 25 years of marriage seems to have gone by in a ...

Now, protection of Soutra Aisle in Midlothian, where a vast medieval hospital and friary ... were treated and managed - from famine to childbirth, dentistry and psychiatric illness.

A new biography of Witkacy offers an opportunity to discuss the turbulent life of this artist – a man of his time and a lover ...