Fiction: This debut tells the story of a young woman with religious visions who just might work miracles. The cover of ...

Before the first printing press was invented in the 15th century, books had to be made by hand. It was the monks who were usually put to work making parchment and ink, writing out text, and binding ...

IN CARNATION, there is a village where time stands still. Like something out of a fairy tale, one comes across it nestled in the woods just north of Fall City, tucked away in a bower of ...

This 12th-century manuscript includes a self-portrait of a female scribe named Guda. Ommundsen et al. / Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2025 During the Middle Ages, it was common to ...

A new exhibition at the British Library explores the public, private and spiritual lives of such figures as Joan of Arc, Christine de Pizan and Hildegard of Bingen Meilan Solly - Senior Associate ...

Diane Watt has received funding from the AHRC, British Academy and Leverhulme Trust. The British Library’s breathtaking new exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, brings to life the ...

German archaeologists discovered that the skulls of three medieval Viking women found on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea showed evidence of an unusual procedure to elongate their ...

A model has gone viral on social media after sharing the "other side" of staying in a medieval-looking village in the north of Italy. In a post recently shared on TikTok, under the username l1sa9s, ...

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Fly over Pietrapertosa, a dramatic village in Basilicata, Italy, perched on rocky cliffs and connected by the iconic Volo dell’Angelo zipline—captured in stunning drone footage that showcases its ...