Hawks offered women both real and symbolic means to express gender, power and status within a male-dominated world.
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Back in the Middle Ages (a.k.a. the Medieval era, approximately 476-1450 A.D.), virginity was an extremely desirable trait in a wife. As second-class citizens, women were highly encouraged to get ...
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 ...
Every few months, a post does the rounds claiming that women in the Middle Ages in Europe routinely poisoned their husbands ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A viral story claims medieval European women poisoned husbands daily, giving an antidote at night. Historians say this practice never happened. Medieval Europe lacked the science for such precise ...
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 ...
"In July 2026, enter a land where glamorous knights compete in showy tournaments for fame and fortune, and small and untrained George dreams of securing the coveted position of knight's squire.
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 ...