A new kind of kingdom needed a new kind of queen. The millennium-old and largely forgotten Mathilda of Flanders is being ...

New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and ...

March is National Women’s History Month, and there are many things people do to commemorate that. During the Middle Ages in ...

The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

Medieval Japanese culture, influenced by Confucian ideals, imposed strict gender roles. While Japanese women had more power ...

Megan Archer gets her car ready. The cars themselves, often representing the pinnacle of engineering and design, push drivers to their absolute limits. Yet, despite the challenges, more women are ...

Doechii’s big year just got a lot bigger. The rapper has been named Billboard’s 2025 Woman of the Year and will be honored at an event taking place later this month, the publication announced ...

A Labour MP has said tightening the law around crossbow sales is "important" as an ex-soldier who murdered a woman and her two daughters awaits ... with a crossbow at their family home in Bushey, near ...

Triple murderer Kyle Clifford is due to be sentenced at Cambridge Crown Court on Tuesday A Labour MP has said tightening the law around crossbow sales is "important" as an ex-soldier who murdered ...

Another fun fact is that Medieval archers did not wear shoes ... was supposedly the legal right of a monarch or lord to date any peasant woman at any time, especially on her wedding night. The concept ...

Most medieval surnames were derived from a person’s occupation. Aristocratic families often carried grand surnames tied to land ownership and legacy. Common folk had names reflecting their trade or ...