Historian and author Helen Castor, presenter of the popular series She-Wolves, explores how the people of the Middle Ages handled the most fundamental moments of transition in life: birth, marriage ...
This blog post is authored by Mary Morse, author of MIP's English Birth Girdles: Devotions for Woman in "Travell of Childe." Mary Morse specializes in medieval women’s devotional and childbirth ...
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Why Women Didn't Outlive Men in the Middle Ages
Our World in Data indicates that women tend to live longer than men. Across the globe, this “longevity gap” is a well-documented phenomenon. But this wasn’t always the case. Rewind the clock to the ...
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: an illiterate girl ...
Through modern science, the grim discovery of a Medieval woman's remains is able to tell the tale of a "coffin birth" and ancient brain surgery. Despite the macabre nature of the grim discovery of a ...
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