Women in the workforce is nothing new. Medieval history proves it, writes Eleanor Janega.

Back in the Middle Ages (a.k.a. the Medieval era, approximately 476-1450 A.D.), virginity was an extremely desirable trait in a wife. As second-class citizens, women were highly encouraged to get ...

Medieval codes of chastity might not be to most 21st-century tastes, but these powerful women-in-history took control of their own identification: found loopholes in the rules, found authority in ...

The discovery is considered the most direct evidence yet of a particular woman taking part in the making of high-quality illuminated manuscripts, the lavishly illustrated religious and secular text… ...

Four Medieval Women Who Rocked Women, in whatever guise, rarely won recognition, but the four exceptional women in Hetta Howes’s book excelled in public roles that called into question what was ...

Medieval codes of chastity might not be to most 21st-century tastes, but these powerful women in history took control of their own identification: found loopholes in the rules, found authority in ...

We have medieval imagery of women in armor, to be sure—paintings and illustrations depicting women from history and myth.

Medieval history may not be the obvious source for an examination of active women rulers—after all, books on the Middle Ages often center on the infighting between kings and their knights, while ...

Small flecks of blue inside of the mouth of a medieval skeleton are raising big questions about women's role in ancient religious manuscripts. The skeleton of a woman, believed to be from the 11th ...

Medieval Women's Choir, led by artistic director Margriet Tindemans, presents ancient Italian music in a program called "A Peaceable Kingdom" at St. James Cathedral in Seattle.