Throughout the Middle Ages, powerful mistresses held sway behind the scenes. In this video, we explore the lives of the women ...

Historian and host of the Gone Medieval podcast Eleanor Janega ranks the most stylish women’s fashion from the medieval period. From the extravagant houppelande to the humble chemise, Eleanor scores ...

If you loved "Hidden Figures" and "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," check out these other great books on women doing amazing things Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE.

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A medieval jousting tournament will take place ... archery demonstrations, interactive jester performances, and workshops for all ages. Entry to the tournament is included with a palace and ...

A new study uses digital tools to analyze nearly 1,000 Syriac manuscripts from the British Library, focusing on how scribes and editors selected and rearranged parts of texts—a practice known as ...

Both dictionaries were among the most widespread in the late medieval German-speaking area." "We do not know much about the manuscript's users. Its writer, who inscribed his name inside the book ...