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 ...
Medieval Europe was a place of great emotional incontinence, so much so that historian Johan Huizinga once claimed, “Modern man has … no idea of the unrestrained extravagance of the medieval heart.” ...
Medieval women viewed birthing girdles, or long pieces of parchment inscribed with religious invocations and drawings, as protective talismans. Courtesy of the Wellcome Collection Giving birth during ...
Studying the Medieval Period allows us to make connections between history and the present in order to see how life during that time created a foundation for the current state of our world. Women have ...
In “Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife” the historian Hetta Howes seeks to relate to figures of the past. By Erin Maglaque Erin Maglaque is a historian and writer. She is currently at work on a history of the ...
Pragya Agarwal received funding from Society of Authors for this research and writing of Hysterical. Medieval Europe was a place of great emotional incontinence. So much so that historian Johan ...
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 ...
Ever cried out “where are all the good men?!” Or wished for the olden days of traditional courtship, when great outpourings of longing were committed to paper and “u up?” texts were unheard of? One ...
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