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 ...

Halley Feiffer (above left, with John Pankow) does her best with the unfunny “Medieval Play,” but the audience may want to take advice from “Monty Python” and run away. Joan Marcus The witless ...

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 ...

What Was Life Really Like for Women in Medieval Times' Medieval historian Dr Eleanor Janega investigates one of the least recorded aspects of medieval life - working women. But dig deep and you can ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — About 1,000 years ago, a woman in Germany died and was buried in an unmarked grave in a church cemetery. No record of her life survived, and no historian had reason to wonder who she was.

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.” ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. On the night of the U.S. election, Manhattan's magisterial, glass-encased Javits Centre stood with its ceiling ...

The remains of a medieval woman who produced sacred texts and was "plugged into a vast global communication network" that would have stretched to Afghanistan has been discovered in Germany. The ...

About 1,000 years ago, a woman in Germany died and was buried in an unmarked grave in a church cemetery. No record of her life survived, and no historian had reason to wonder who she was. But when ...