Medieval women would consume juniper berries or use them in concoctions to prevent pregnancy. The plant was revered for its ...

Dating from the Early Medieval era, which ran from 400 to 1100 AD, the skeletons are from “a period which is very poorly documented in historical sources, and for which we have comparatively few ...

Anna Komnene, the 11th-century Byzantine princess who defied medieval norms to become one of the first female historians with ...

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 ...

How the medieval witch image has evolved over centuries The gendered stereotype of the witch that we see in Halloween costumes can be traced back as far as the 11th century, explains Jennifer Farrell ...

Noble offering a hawk to a lady, detail from the Month of July, panel taken from Cycle of the Months, by Master Venceslao, fresco, Tower Aquila, Buonconsiglio Castle, Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dating from the Early Medieval era, which ran from 400 to 1100 AD, the skeletons are from “a period which is very poorly documented in historical sources, and for which we have comparatively few ...

Archaeologists working at a site in south Wales have uncovered dozens of skeletons – mostly women – which offer a “window into a really poorly understood period of history.” ...