First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic ...

Women aren't allowed to teach – but Mary teaches." Saint Mary also upended standard contemporary notions of female saintly beauty and sexual behaviour, such as those put forward in tales translated by ...

seeks to reexamine The Parson's Tale and its place in "The Canterbury Tales," especially since so many readers and critics who love Chaucer have found it difficult to love the Parson and what he has ...

Combined, the artifacts reclaim the medieval time period that had previously been dominated by men – their voices, their tales, their opinions – and create a space for women in our perception ...

In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves ... As humanity’s primal home now lost through the sins of Adam of Eve, the Earthly Paradise ...