The elite women of ancient Greece ... During the Middle Ages the tradition continued only among the nobility, as most of the peasant classes didn’t have the money for such luxuries.

The birds are out! The flowers are budding! And my picnic blanket is officially rolling out! There’s nothing quite like the ...

BIRKBY is a tranquil corner of countryside lost in the lanes between Northallerton and Darlington. Even when a mainline train clatters ...

Married women wore a stola ... with the toga eventually being abandoned in favor of other garments. In the Middle Ages, variety in clothing styles became much more pronounced among the wealthy ...

Still, they’re usually mixed in with bearded hermits slinging magic fireballs, which we’re reliably informed your average medieval peasant had ... set in the gory Middle Ages, where you ...

What: This poetry event features the legendary poetical talents of Madison, Wis.’ FlowPoetry and Rockford's Chris Sims. Both ...

But everyone had manners in the Middle Ages. Prima nocta, also called droit de seigneur, was supposedly the legal right of a monarch or lord to date any peasant woman at any time, especially on her ...

When he was forty years old and the husband of an elderly, well-to-do peasant woman, his wife bought him ... By 1927 the movement had changed, was more middle- than lower-class, and began shortly ...

The Cologne Carnival takes place every year in Cologne, Germany, since the Middle Ages. The time of the carnival is officially ... Unique to the Rhineland, Weiberfastnacht is originally known as the ...

The World Social Forum (WSF) has an attractive slogan signifying hope: Another World is Possible! At the graveside of the towering revolutionary Karl Marx on his death anniversary, we need to modify ...