A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 ...

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

Women braided their hair with ribbons and looped it around either side of their face. Covering one’s hair was very important in medieval times due to religious ideas of chastity and piety.

During the Middle Ages, it was common to find monks huddled over their desks, painstakingly copying manuscripts by hand. But ...

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

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 ...