Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Work in the fields, Buonconsiglio Castle When people talk about women in the workplace, more often than not they discuss it as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Back in the Middle Ages (a.k.a. the Medieval era, approximately 476-1450 A.D.), virginity was an extremely desirable trait in a ...

Historian and host of the Gone Medieval podcast Eleanor Janega ranks the most stylish women’s fashion from the medieval period. From the extravagant houppelande to the humble chemise, Eleanor scores ...

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 ...

Those inclined to see our era as a feminist golden age will find a timely corrective in “The Once and Future Sex,” medieval historian Eleanor Janega’s accessible and entertaining study of how women ...

A recently uncovered gospel written by a community of women in the early 10th century will be one of the marquee lots at Christie’s valuable books and manuscripts sale in London on December 10. It is ...

The setup sounds like a medieval soap opera. But Robyn Cadwallader knows far too much about the 13th century to write an anachronistic romance. Whatever its connotations, medieval represents half the ...

In medieval Europe, views of women could often be summed up in two words: sinner or saint. Either way, they’re daunting models – and either way, patriarchy considered women in need of protection and ...