Back in the Middle Ages (a.k.a. the Medieval era, approximately 476-1450 A.D.), virginity was an extremely desirable trait in a wife. As second-class citizens, women were highly encouraged to get ...

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 ...

At the Met Cloisters in Manhattan, paintings, statuettes and other objects demonstrate that human desire transcends time and cultures. The fictional tale of Phyllis and Aristotle, in which she gets ...

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 ...

But even in the late Middle Ages, when life expectancy was considerably lower, youth was a flexible category that could expand well into the late 20s and even 30s. So what were the defining ...

The city sits just below a Scandinavian castle complex, so the ring could have come from a royal.