First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic ...

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

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 ...

"I want to bring this story into the light, because it dispels a lot of the negative stereotypes that we have heard about the ...

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 ...

March is National Women’s History Month, and there are many things people do to commemorate that. During the Middle Ages in ...

The Cambridge University Library exhibition, Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World, showcases medieval manuscripts detailing treatments ranging from the commonplace to the truly peculiar, ...

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 ...

Irish actress Caitríona Balfe won a Bafta for her performance in Kenneth Branagh’s film Belfast and is also known to many as Claire in time travel drama series Outlander. Caitríona joins Nuala ...

The first complete look at the social status and daily life of medieval Jewish women. This volume, an amazing act of historical recovery and reconstruction, offers a comprehensive examination of ...