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 ...

In the 14th century, power in Europe was largely in the hands of the aristocracy. Surprisingly, one-fifth of the rulers were ...

It uses the few documents produced by women, along with archaeological evidence, art, and the written records of medieval men. "(There is) rich detail and complexity of the chapters...To those who ...

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 ...

"How to Be a Renaissance Woman" is not really a how-to book (but you guessed!). No, Jill Burke's sprightly cultural history, ...

But there were women artists working in the Early Renaissance all the way through to the Romantic era. It’s just that their work was often overlooked or outright ignored. That’s changing ...

A team of researchers has spotted signs on a bare-chested woman in the painting on the biblical flood in the Sisten Chapel that appear to show had breast cancer ...

The British Library’s yearlong digitization of nearly 100 manuscripts related to medieval and Renaissance women provided the inspiration for “In Their Own Words.”While searching the ...