Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Every book was a laborious project during the Middle Ages. And ...
A new exhibition at the British Library explores the public, private and spiritual lives of such figures as Joan of Arc, Christine de Pizan and Hildegard of Bingen Meilan Solly - Senior Associate ...
German archaeologists discovered that the skulls of three medieval Viking women found on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea showed evidence of an unusual procedure to elongate their ...
This 12th-century manuscript includes a self-portrait of a female scribe named Guda. Ommundsen et al. / Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2025 During the Middle Ages, it was common to ...
Groundwork in a UK city market place revealed medieval and Roman history. Speller Metcalfe via University of Leicester A medieval building with a dark past was recently discovered during groundwork ...
For centuries, the image of a monk hunched over a desk, painstakingly copying manuscripts by candlelight, has dominated our perception of scholarship in the Middle Ages. But what about the women? A ...