For centuries, hanging was the go-to punishment for crime in medieval Europe—often followed by gibbeting, where the corpse ...

Medieval Women Knew a Thing or Two About the Glass Ceiling and How to Break it Published Nov 18, 2016 at 9:46 AM EST Updated Nov 23, 2016 at 10:16 AM EST ...

Women in the workforce is nothing new. Medieval history proves it, writes Eleanor Janega.

We have medieval imagery of women in armor, to be sure—paintings and illustrations depicting women from history and myth.

The discovery is considered the most direct evidence yet of a particular woman taking part in the making of high-quality illuminated manuscripts, the lavishly illustrated religious and secular text… ...

These Rare Artifacts Tell Medieval Women’s Stories in Their Own Words A new exhibition at the British Library explores the public, private and spiritual lives of such figures as Joan of Arc ...

Politically active women thrived in the Middle Ages—as queens, duchesses, countesses, and so on—because the medieval period seated political power within noble families, and women were members ...

While the wider literature tells us that medieval women were silent and passive, their letters and embroideries tell a different story.