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

Medieval life was tough - and often very weird. In this episode, we explore one of the strangest habits women practiced during the Middle Ages. Whether for fashion, health, or superstition, this ...

From monks thought to have died from a lack of sex, to priests conjuring demons to lure women into bed, a new book offers fascinating glimpses into the history of sex in the Middle Ages.

Politically active women thrived in the Middle Ages—as queens, duchesses, countesses, and so on—because the medieval period seated political power within noble families, and women were members ...

The church actually sponsored some of the most beautiful and radical art that emerged in the Middle Ages. A lot of these monasteries had artist studios where monks made illuminated manuscripts.

In “Beatrice’s Last Smile: A New History of the Middle Ages,” he tracks these “fluctuations between the divine and the human by interweaving stories about men, women, and children living ...

In the Middle Ages European artists and theologians ... the devil might choose as undiabolical an aspect as possible—a beautiful woman, for example, or a holy figure—the better to deceive ...