Medieval” has come to mean backward, uninformed, and brutal, particularly when looking at the lives of women. This does not ...

In the medieval church, women's roles were limited—usually some form of enclosure and celibacy, such as becoming an anchoress ...

Still, another reality emerges. The church may not have seen women as equals, but nevertheless, their work was key to the workings and finances of the papal court and its surroundings. The fact is ...

Gertrude of Merania, Queen of Hungary, and Agnès Sorel, the first officially recognised mistress to a French king. One a ‘princess’, the other a minor aristocrat. What could these two young women born ...