Rethinking women's role in medieval writing Warriner and her team concluded that this woman was likely an artist of great skill, the kind entrusted with the use of such a valuable pigment to work ...

Historian Linda Paterson explores the rise of the troubadours – the poetic performers who turned love, politics and desire ...

Pope Joan By Donna Woolfolk Cross (1996) 4. According to medieval legend, a woman sat on St. Peter’s throne from 855-57.

Art History Women Played a Pivotal Role as Scribes of Medieval Manuscripts, Research Reveals More than 110,000 manuscripts were made by women, a far greater number than previously thought.