There is a new trend of young women flocking to see knightly performers at Medieval Times events, and multiple psychologists offered their explanations why.

Hawks offered women both real and symbolic means to express gender, power and status within a male-dominated world.

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 ...

The romance genre owes a major debt to the Middle Ages. That's where we get the word, the genre, and most of its tropes.

Medieval women were not supposed to be high achievers — at least not in the male arena of fame and fortune. Women, in whatever guise, rarely won recognition, but the four exceptional women in Hetta ...

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 ...

A recently uncovered gospel written by a community of women in the early 10th century will be one of the marquee lots at Christie’s valuable books and manuscripts sale in London on December 10. It is ...

The setup sounds like a medieval soap opera. But Robyn Cadwallader knows far too much about the 13th century to write an anachronistic romance. Whatever its connotations, medieval represents half the ...

The extraordinary Book of the City of Ladies (Persea 1982) by the 15th-century French widow and professional writer is a didactic exchange between de Pizan and the virtues Reason, Rectitude and ...