'It’s an extremely sexy story': How the legendary tale of 'rebel' saint Mary of Egypt became a medieval blockbuster
Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new ...
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Medieval Female Scribes Were Far More Common Than Previously Thought. At Least 110,000 Medieval Manuscripts Were Copied by Women
The vast majority of female scribes remain anonymous. Many likely worked in convents or lay workshops, their contributions ...
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The Tower of Nesle: The Medieval Scandal That Led to the Revival of the Salic Law, Barring Women from the Throne
Alexandre Dumas, the renowned author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, lived a life nearly as eventful ...
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Early Modern Europeans Abducted Women To 'Resolve' Marital Problems
In post-medieval Europe, disputes in marriage were solved by abducting the woman in question. This showed how women's freedom ...
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Utrecht University Library digitizes earliest printed books
Utrecht University Library owns as many as about 900 books printed between 1450 and 1500, the first decades of printing in Europe. These so-called incunabula (books printed before 1501) will all be ...
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Abducting women: early modern Europe’s solution to marital problems
Post-Medieval Europe (from the 16th to the 18th century), was ... This consisted of depositing a woman somewhere and locking ...
After 500 years:Rare medieval Arma Christi scroll discovered in Bar Convent shoebox goes on display
"This discovery has remained hidden for over 500 years, so we know people won't mind waiting a little longer to see it," said ...
A Columbia author is releasing a short story collection for 'weirdos with a sense of wonder'
Columbia South Carolina's Julia Elliot releases a Southern short story collection in April called "Hellions," that's received ...
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The Best Medieval Games You’ll Ever Play
We’ve picked some of our favorite medieval games available to play now, from the realistic to the preposterous. This list isn’t necessarily ranked in any particular order. All of them are ...
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Butchers, bakers, candlestick-makers − and prostitutes: The women working behind the scenes in papal Avignon
The papal palace in Avignon, where the pope's court was based for much of the 14th century. Jean-Marc Rosier from http://www.rosier.pro/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA ...