MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed ...

A new kind of kingdom needed a new kind of queen. The millennium-old and largely forgotten Mathilda of Flanders is being ...

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The history of medicine is filled with remedies that, viewed through a modern lens, seem perplexing, misguided or downright ...

New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and ...

The Eurocentric concept of the “Dark Ages” has often obscured the rich, diverse, and sophisticated developments in Africa.

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Introduction No human civilization—whether large or small, modern or traditional—has ever survived without collectively ...