What Was Life Really Like for Women in Medieval Times' Medieval historian Dr Eleanor Janega investigates one of the least recorded aspects of medieval life - working women. But dig deep and you ...

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 ... Even some of the more bizarre behaviour recorded from medieval mystics, such as Catherine of Siena’s drinking the pus from the ...

“Spiritual Lives” introduces nuns, mystics and heretics. There are records relating ... The exhibition draws attention to the sheer diversity of the lives and experiences of medieval women in England ...

According to 13th and 14th-century legal treatises, judicial duels between men and women only happened in cases of notnunft.The medieval law term describes rape, kidnapping, and sexual assault ...

Medieval women were not supposed to be high achievers — at least not in the male arena of fame and fortune. Women, in whatever guise, rarely won recognition, but the four exceptional women in Hetta ...

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London CNN — Archaeologists working at a site in south Wales have uncovered dozens of skeletons – mostly women – which offer ... Dating from the Early Medieval era, which ran from 400 ...

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 ...