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Women In The Middle Ages Came Up With Clever Ways Of Faking Their Virginity, And Some Of Them Are Absolutely Mind-Boggling

Back in the Middle Ages (a.k.a. the Medieval era, approximately 476-1450 A.D.), virginity was an extremely desirable trait in ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These Rare Artifacts Tell Medieval Women’s Stories in Their Own Words

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 ...
The New York Times

Looking at Sexuality With a Medieval Sensibility

At the Met Cloisters in Manhattan, paintings, statuettes and other objects demonstrate that human desire transcends time and cultures. The fictional tale of Phyllis and Aristotle, in which she gets ...

This Is What It Was Like to Be a Teenager in the Middle Ages

But even in the late Middle Ages, when life expectancy was considerably lower, youth was a flexible category that could expand well into the late 20s and even 30s. So what were the defining ...

Why It’s Time to Shed Some Light on History’s ‘Dark Ages’

The period is good and bad, transparent and opaque, only hazily understood—but ultimately the opposite of what we want our ...