A recently discovered gospel likely written by women at the abbey of Essen in the 10th century could sell for more than $1 ...

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 ...

Those inclined to see our era as a feminist golden age will find a timely corrective in “The Once and Future Sex,” medieval historian Eleanor Janega’s accessible and entertaining study of how women ...

Archaeologists in England were surprised to discover an elaborate cross with human faces and a gold-and-garnet necklace in an early medieval burial. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

For centuries, women have consistently outlived men, a trend consistent across various cultures. But in the cramped and ...

The ‘Régime du corps’ depicts women’s responsibilities in wealthy medieval households—and how domestic management advice was passed down. What type of images come to mind when you think of medieval ...

A woman walking in the Czech Republic stumbled upon more than 2,150 early medieval silver coins. Originally stored in a ceramic pot during a time of political turmoil, the coins have sat in place ...

In the illuminating and entertaining blog Going Medieval, Eleanor Janega, a medievalist at the London School of Economics, upends prevalent misconceptions about medieval Europe. These ...

German archaeologists discovered that the skulls of three medieval Viking women found on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea showed evidence of an unusual procedure to elongate their ...