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

In Morocco, traditional attire plays a vital role in the Eid celebrations. These garments are often custom-made and ...

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

Fragments of a rare Merlin manuscript from the 1200s discovered and digitised in a ground-breaking three-year project at ...

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

Against all odds, inside the majestic Grand Palais, Chanel did what it has done for a century: endure. And not just endure.

The British Library’s immense and absorbing exhibition on the lives of medieval women offers some eye-widening ironies as well as surprises. The curators aim to ‘upend conventional assumptions’ about ...

and a silk tunic printed with an image from the kooky 1981 film Knightriders about a medieval reenactment group jousting on motorcycles. Even their new collection of leather bags are shaped like ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) In medieval papal Avignon, women played crucial roles behind the scenes, contributing significantly to the papal court's operations and finances. Despite ...

If you own more than two tunics, you will be seen as wealthy in your hometown ... You may be saying, “Why would Americans wear Medieval clothing? That’s not American, and this feels Eurocentric.” To ...

We will pilgrim to the Cathedral in Germany where the holy tunic rests and feel the chills ... track and field Olympian talks to BBC 100 Women about her advocacy for athletes' rights.