B ack in the Middle Ages (a.k.a. the Medieval era, approximately 476-1450 A.D.), virginity was an extremely desirable trait in a wife. As second-class citizens, women were highly encouraged to get ...

In an era marked by strict patriarchal norms, women developed creative methods to protect their bodily autonomy, often using ...

Back in the Middle Ages (a.k.a. the Medieval era, approximately 476-1450 A.D.), virginity was an extremely desirable trait in a wife. As second-class citizens, women were highly encouraged to get ...

Read More: The Middle Ages Have Been Misused by the Far Right. ... the group of medieval women whose work we know the most about are those from the highest ranks of society—noble and royal women.

In popular imagination, scribes and manuscript illuminators of the Middle Ages were men: Monks hard at work in candlelit scriptoria, busy copying the world’s knowledge onto parchment pages ...

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 ...

It was not unusual for high-status men and women in the middle ages to have their portrait completed in the company of a pet, most commonly cats and dogs, to signify their elevated status. Last ...

Medieval manuscripts are littered with images of cats – sharing their owner’s dinner, ... In the middle ages, men and women were often identified by the animals they kept.