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 ...

Back in the Middle Ages (a.k.a. the Medieval era, approximately 476-1450 A.D.), virginity was an extremely desirable trait in ...

Medieval life was filled with customs that seem strange to us today, especially among women. In this video, we explore one of the oddest habits women practiced during the Middle Ages. Discover the ...

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 ...

Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122?-1204) may well have been the greatest woman of the Middle Ages. In her 82 years she was born the Duchess of Aquitaine and Countess of Poitou, became Queen of France at age ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The 2023 Colorado Mediaeval Festival is returning to Loveland beginning at 3 p.m. Friday and running through 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the Savage Woods, 1720 Savage Road. Festival organizer Kitty Wild has ...