The competitors' equipment, made of steel and titanium, must be historically accurate. The sound of steel when a sword hits ...

Representations of and by Italian Women From the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period, will be offered Wednesdays, 4:35-6:55 p.m., this coming spring.

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A new exhibition at the British Library will offer a rare look at the lives of medieval women, illuminating their often-hidden place in history through a multi-sensory experience. Using a range of ...

Please verify your email address. A Minecraft player redesigned armor sets with bulkier, detailed textures in a project that took six days of work. The player plans to release the armor sets as ...

It’s part of an ongoing grift that would have you believe transgender athletes are taking over women’s sports, robbing cisgender women of opportunities to play, scholarships and trophies ...

A study of a remarkable medieval skeleton found in a well at a castle in Norway has helped to corroborate events detailed in an 800-year-old Norse saga. Michael Martin, one of the authors of the ...

From 15th century birth girdles to 13th century make-up tutorials, a new exhibition at the British Library reveals what life was like for medieval women. Curator Eleanor Jackson and writer Bee ...

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 ...

The Sverris saga, a quasi-fictional historical account from the end of the 12th century CE, recaps the reign of the medieval Norwegian king Sverre Sigurdsson. One of the best-known passages ...