When people talk about women in the workplace, more often than not they discuss it as a new phenomenon. Women, we are given to understand, emerged to gain a foothold in the office as a part of the ...

Medieval Europe was a place of great emotional incontinence, so much so that historian Johan Huizinga once claimed, “Modern man has … no idea of the unrestrained extravagance of the medieval heart.” ...

Halley Feiffer (above left, with John Pankow) does her best with the unfunny “Medieval Play,” but the audience may want to take advice from “Monty Python” and run away. Joan Marcus The witless ...

For centuries, women have consistently outlived men, a trend consistent across various cultures. But in the cramped and ...

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 ...

Strong, intermediate and non-deformed skulls, from left, from the Early Medieval sites Altenerding and Straubing in Bavaria, Germany. AP BERLIN — The newcomers who arrived in the little farming ...