In the popular imagination, “medieval” and “women” aren’t always words which go together happily. Ideas about the lives of pre-Renaissance women tend to form two hazy stereotypes: an illiterate girl ...
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 ...
A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 to 1626 CE were copied by female scribes, with a probable total exceeding ...
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 ...
Rachel Delman received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (2013-2016) and the Leverhulme Trust (2019-2022). Hawks are taking cinematic flight. In two recent literary adaptations, ...