She adds that lighter skin was idealised in women in medieval England and associated with virginity: "There is often a connection made between brightness of colouring – blonde hair, for example – and ...

In 11th-century England, a saint with an extremely dissolute past became a cultural and religious symbol that broke boundaries.

New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and ...

Peasant women did a lot of the same work as men ... throughout history is that we have not truly changed. A woman in medieval ...

In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn children. These parchment or paper rolls replicated the “girdle relics” of the ...

Allen Lane has signed Florence Scott’s “bold and original” history of Medieval queenship, Monarchia: A New History of the ...

Nuala McGovern speaks to Bridget Phillipson, Secretary of State for Education, about this announcement and also about the current state of provision and funding for children with special education ...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays redresses a notable hiatus in scholarship of early medieval England. Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Women in Tenth-Century England argues for a ...

You might think that the only people in medieval and early modern England were Normans, Anglo- Saxons and Vikings. You might believe no space existed for Africans in that society. But we now know ...