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

In medieval Spain, death was a spiritual and public event. This video explores the now-forgotten tradition of public mourning led by women—an emotional and symbolic role in 13th-century royal funerals ...

The 14th-century Shem Tov Bible is now being exhibited at the National Library of Israel, a year after a family bought it for ...

Barr, already well-known for her 2020 book The Making of Biblical Womanhood, is herself a Baptist pastor’s wife. She agrees ...

The University of Birmingham and Longleat House have collaborated on a new project re-examining the famous medieval poem, La ...

After a three-year wait, the Women’s Euros Championship is back, and this time, Switzerland will be hosting the female football teams in eight different stadiums across the country.

Micro-portraits of women of a certain age – foggy, tired, rather bad-tempered, with diminishing bone density, putting on the ...

Researchers cite new evidence of how a medieval British noblewoman may have plotted to exact revenge and help kill her former ...

A recent study by Dr. Astrid Noterman examined the rare bed burials of medieval Europe. Found predominantly in Germany, ...

The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male ...

Those who've been advocating for women deacons in the Catholic Church are taking stock of the possibility under the papacy of ...