In the popular imagination, “medieval” and “women” aren’t always words which go together happily. Ideas about the lives of pre-Renaissance women tend to form two hazy stereotypes: an illiterate girl ...
“Work in the fields,” detail from the month of Oct., in the Cycle of the Months fresco by Master Venceslao, displayed in Buonconsiglio Castle, in Trento, Italy. “Work in the fields,” detail from the ...
In “Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife” the historian Hetta Howes seeks to relate to figures of the past. By Erin Maglaque Erin Maglaque is a historian and writer. She is currently at work on a history of the ...
Archaeologists in England were surprised to discover an elaborate cross with human faces and a gold-and-garnet necklace in an early medieval burial. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...
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