In many medieval towns, public bathhouses were common, especially from the 12th to the 15th centuries. Men and women ...

When people talk about women in the workplace, more often than not they discuss it as a new phenomenon. Women, we are given to understand, emerged to gain a foothold in the office as a part of the ...

In yet another example of women’s anatomy confounding men for decades, the Voynich manuscript, an infamous 15th-century text thought to have used an indecipherable code, has been revealed to actually ...

Discover how a 15th century brassiere challenges the history of undergarments and reshapes our understanding of medieval lingerie. Until the modern invention of the brassiere with cups, women had to ...