The afterlife is not typically associated with aggressive pets and insatiable worms. But these are exactly the creatures that ...

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Researchers examined 23,774 colophons from a Benedictine catalog and determined that of the estimated 110,000 manuscripts written by women during the Middle Ages, 8,000 must have survived.

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The paradox of medieval history is that while governance systems were authoritarian, women had a reasonable chance of coming to power thanks to family succession. However, with the arrival of ...

“Women in the Middle Ages were seen as less important than men, and they were excluded from a lot of areas of power,” the curator adds.