This video tackles the question of gender roles in medieval warfare and society. It explores how reproductive biology and military needs shaped perceptions of male and female value in medieval times.

An analysis of a 700-year-old ring reveals a unique reddish-purple sapphire set in 18-karat gold with a lion decoration.

noting that men cannot bend or kneel without showing “their underwear and what was inside it.” Later, in the 15th century, medieval fashion was centered on the courts of the Dukes of Burgundy ...

A study of Danish skulls showing signs of healed fractures revealed that men living during Medieval times in Europe had an increased risk of dying -- even after surviving an axe to the head.

The first chapter describes how medieval Europeans got their ideas about women, sex, beauty, and... well, generally everything from the Greeks. Greeks viewed men as the default humans; women were ...

A 1,000-year-old medieval weapon was unearthed by unknowing construction workers, Ancient Origins reported.

The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male ...

But new research published in Science Advances shows that in Medieval England, this wasn’t the case. Researchers found that men and women lived to around the same ages, and life expectancy wasn’t ...

That somewhere else was her other work. For the vast majority of medieval Europeans—about 85%— work meant farming. Peasant women worked alongside men doing almost exactly the same jobs in the ...