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.

For centuries, women have consistently outlived men, a trend consistent across various cultures. But in the cramped and unforgiving streets of Medieval England, this biological edge vanished.

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 ...

Researchers cite new evidence of how a medieval British noblewoman may have plotted to exact revenge and help kill her former ...

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 ...

Its goal is to make available to teachers and students volumes that contain translations of selected primary documents that illustrate various aspects of the life experience of medieval men and women.

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 ...

Men in medieval China could gain high status in society as easily as male Baby Boomers in the US, according to a new study released on Thursday. The study, published in the peer-reviewed ...

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 ...

During the early medieval period, amid an era of Christian ... excavations of the castle’s cemetery, the remains of 24 men and one woman were unearthed, all of whom were buried between the ...