Rarely seen due to its age and rarity, a 500-year-old birthing girdle is currently on display at the Wellcome Collection.
This blog post is authored by Mary Morse, author of MIP's English Birth Girdles: Devotions for Woman in "Travell of Childe." Mary Morse specializes in medieval women’s devotional and childbirth ...
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Why Women Didn't Outlive Men in the Middle Ages
Our World in Data indicates that women tend to live longer than men. Across the globe, this “longevity gap” is a well-documented phenomenon. But this wasn’t always the case. Rewind the clock to the ...
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