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.

While today’s women typically live six years longer than men in the U.S., the Medieval period offers a stark reminder of how societal inequalities can erase even biological advantages.

When men's fashion had a revolution—in medieval times Europe's best-dressed men ruffled feathers with their tight clothes, pointy shoes, and attitudes. And they were doing it in the 14th century.

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

Medieval men did like a potbelly on their women, though. This is the opposite of today’s preference for chiseled abs, but both features denote the same trait: wealth.

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. Those ...

A Slice of Life: Selected Documents of Medieval English Peasant Experience. Edited, translated and with an introduction by Edwin Brezette DeWindt. These are the only written materials that permit some ...

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 ...

Obtaining high status was likely as easy for men in the Tang Dynasty as for men in the modern US, a study suggests. It found that social mobility for men at the time could be compared to that of ...

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 fields.

While excavating a cemetery for medieval knights in Spain, archaeologists came across something unexpected: the remains of a woman. Pierced by sharp objects, her bones suggest she fought and died ...