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Why Medieval Women Sometimes Fought in Bloody Trials by Combat

In cases of rape and sexual violence, women had few other avenues for seeking justice. Tucked within the Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen and the Bavarian State Library in Munich, rare medieval ...
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What Was Life Really Like for Women in Medieval Times

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 ...
Time

Medieval Women Were a Vital Part of the Workforce. We Can Learn from Them

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 ...
The Conversation

Medieval Women: In Their Own Words at the British Library is unmissable

Diane Watt has received funding from the AHRC, British Academy and Leverhulme Trust. The British Library’s breathtaking new exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, brings to life the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

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, Christine de Pizan and Hildegard of Bingen Meilan Solly - Senior Associate ...
The Conversation

Letters and embroidery allowed medieval women to express their ‘forbidden’ emotions

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 ...