A woman barfing up a tiny demon ... “A lot of it is about showing characters, people or creatures in medieval art that jump out of the page and have their own personality,” Swarthout told ...

The foundations of the church associated with a medieval women’s religious community in ... with a reputation for the art she does,” Beach says. “It’s the earliest physical evidence ...

To today’s audiences, medieval art can look outright bizarre ... the weirdest medieval images she can find, such as a woman throwing up a small demon, an eagle with human faces covering its ...

This is inspired by medieval art directly. It’s a concept study for ... What’s so interesting about this study is that it reads as almost from a women’s fashion magazine from the ‘30s ...

Swarthout is the researcher behind the popular art history-inspired social media account Weird Medieval Guys ... by-combat tips (if between a man and a woman, the man must be chest-deep in ...

The first section focuses on the “private lives” of medieval women: their health concerns, their beauty regimes, and their love-lives. Unfurled across one cabinet is a strange slim document.

The document is currently on view as part of the exhibition “Medieval Women: In Their Own Words” at the British Library in London through March 2. The letter is just one in a series of ...

Though medieval women undoubtedly had it worse (lacking the ... whose popular work “Ars Versificatoria” (“The Art of the Versemaker”) contained a master class in how to describe a ...