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There are 20 house museums and landmarks in Historic Germantown including Cliveden, the site of the Revolutionary War’s ...
In medieval Spain, death was a spiritual and public event. This video explores the now-forgotten tradition of public mourning led by women—an emotional and symbolic role in 13th-century royal ...
Archaeologists in south Wales discovered 41 skeletons, primarily of women, dating back to 500-600 AD. The remains provide insights into the challenging lives of early medieval farmers, showing ...
Archaeologists working at a site in south Wales have uncovered dozens of skeletons – mostly women – which offer a “window into a really poorly understood period of history.” ...
A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 to 1626 CE were copied by female scribes, with a probable total ...
Art History Women Played a Pivotal Role as Scribes of Medieval Manuscripts, Research Reveals More than 110,000 manuscripts were made by women, a far greater number than previously thought.
So You Want to Dress Like a 14th-Century Medieval Lady The 14th century is an incredibly exciting time due to the emergence of tailoring, lacing, buttoning, and curved seams. By Anwen Cao ...
St Brigid may have led the way, but there were other powerful, inspiring and influential women who blazed a trail in Medieval Kildare ...
Learn why the life expectancy during the medieval period was equal for men and women based on bones that point out past illnesses and frailty.
In “Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife,” the scholar Hetta Howes presents a history of medieval women’s lives as told through the prism of four exceptional individuals.
From multiple homages to Halle Berry to out-of-this-world extraterrestrials, Black celebrity women showed up and showed out this Halloween.