Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Back in the Middle Ages (a.k.a. the Medieval era, approximately 476-1450 A.D.), virginity was an extremely desirable trait in a ...

What type of images come to mind when you think of medieval art? Knights and ladies? Biblical scenes? Cathedrals? It’s probably not some unfortunate man in the throes of vomiting. It might surprise ...

Movies make it look like every noblewoman had a secret lover, but medieval life didn’t work that way. High-ranking women were almost never alone - surrounded by ladies, guards, servants, and constant ...

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 ...

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 ...

This incisive revisionist history tracks “societal expectations of women” from the Middle Ages to today. Blogger and historian Janega (The Middle Ages: A Graphic History) notes that early Christian ...

The first autobiography in the English language was written by a Christian woman, Margery Kempe, who lived in the early 1400s. In the early Middle Ages, it was not uncommon for an abbess (the female ...

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 ...