Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Rachael Kohn: She was an Abbess, an apothecary, a composer, and much else besides. Hello, I'm Rachael ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Rachael Kohn: She ran businesses, had masses of children, and travelled the mediaeval world proclaiming ...

In the past twenty years, especially, many books have been written on women in the Middle Ages. The editors have selected ten of these volumes that provide a helpful introduction or general study: ...

“These extraordinary women were, in many ways, just like us.” Few medieval women were able to record their feelings on life, but in this engrossing début work, medieval historian Howes explores the ...

CHICAGO (RNS) When she died on a pyre in 1431, she achieved an immortality in art and literature that surpasses all of her contemporaries and continues in a new photography exhibit by Susan Aurinko.

Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of seven men and women, including a Canadian and an English founder of two religious orders for women. He also declared the Italian medieval mystic, Blessed ...

The Journal of the American Academy of Religion is generally considered to be the top academic journal in the field of religious studies. Now in volume 68 and with a circulation of over 10,000, this ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The British Library's breathtaking new exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words , brings to life the experiences, stories and voices of women from the distant past.