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Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new ...

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 ...

March is National Women’s History Month, and there are many things people do to commemorate that. During the Middle Ages in ...

For centuries, the image of a monk hunched over a desk, painstakingly copying manuscripts by candlelight, has dominated our ...

A study provides new insights into the many overlooked women scribes who wrote manuscripts in the Middle Ages.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) In medieval papal Avignon, women played crucial roles behind the scenes, contributing significantly to the papal court's operations and finances. Despite ...

Drawing on years of scholarship, Howes shines a light on the daily realities of medieval women’s lives from sex and childbirth to friendship and death, in prose that matches the irrepressible ...

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Medieval art is full of unicorns. One famous example is the series of tapestries known as the Lady and the Unicorn, which now hang in the Musée Cluny in Paris. And the artworks have an unexpected ...