Medieval Women & Armour

Rather interesting article from   - What Kind of Armour Did Medieval Women Really Wear : We know that skimpy armor that shows off a woman...

History of the Hennin

From Smithsonian dot com : Nothing says “princess” like a pointy, cone-shaped hat. From kids’ costumes to medieval paintings, the cone hat—m...

Tale of Trotula

Time has not been kind to the woman known as Trotula Plataerius, Trotula di Ruggiero or Trotula of Salerno. Was she the author of the famous...

Collegiate Foundress: Dervorguilla of Galloway

From BBC News : An Oxford University college may have taken its name from a medieval lord, but it was under the watchful eye of his widow th...

Canonisation of Hildegard von Bingen

From Huffington Post : The Catholic Church seems ready to codify what music lovers have known for nearly a millennium: Hildegard von Bingen ...

Bizarre History of the Pregnancy test

From i09 : Nowadays, finding out if you're pregnant is relatively easy — but it wasn't always that way. Over the centuries, people h...

Mistresses Who Changed History

From Slate : Before Monica Lewinsky, Camilla Parker Bowles, or Marilyn Monroe, there was Hagar—the world's first known mistress. Several...

Pucellina of Blois

From the Jerusalem Post : In the second half of the 12th century, a Jewish woman named Pucellina, presumably of Italian ancestry, had dealin...