A curious thing happened in the middle of the 14th century. According to Henry Knighton's Chronicle, an English narrative completed at Leicester by ca. 1400 CE, in the year 1348 a group of about 40-50 ...
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 ...
In cases of rape and sexual violence, women had few other avenues for seeking justice. Tucked within the Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen and the Bavarian State Library in Munich, rare medieval ...
Medieval women were not supposed to be high achievers — at least not in the male arena of fame and fortune. Women, in whatever guise, rarely won recognition, but the four exceptional women in Hetta ...
We know that skimpy armor that shows off a woman’s cleavage is rather impractical for combat and that sculpted “boob plate” armor can be a hazard to your health, but on occasions that women did don ...
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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 ...
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If spring seems noncommittal in Seattle this year, take heart that one of the city’s most adventurous music ensembles is celebrating a traditional linkage between the season and themes of renewal, ...