Medieval society needed workers, but not every role earned dignity. Certain jobs were unavoidable, but still left people ...

Stories retelling the birth of the Virgin Mary reveal that the Church was more forgiving of infertility than the general ...

Though travel was rudimentary compared to the modern age, racial, gender and even sexual diversity could be found throughout medieval society. One 2019 study, for example, used DNA from bones in a ...

Those inclined to see our era as a feminist golden age will find a timely corrective in “The Once and Future Sex,” medieval historian ... were viewed in medieval society.

“To be buried face-down is thought to have been a social expression of ‘otherness’, a burial practice reserved for people considered outside of Early Medieval society,” MOLA said.

its findings shed light on medieval society. “The small details of manuscripts can tell you so much about the world that created them,” Dr. Wellesley said. “It’s a popular assumption that ...