'It’s an extremely sexy story': How the legendary tale of 'rebel' saint Mary of Egypt became a medieval blockbuster
Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new ...
DNA says you’re related to a Viking, a medieval German Jew or a 1700s enslaved African? What a genetic match really means
In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made ...
Why medieval animal art has gone viral on social media
Cats wearing clothes and playing musical instruments.These are part of a treasure trove of medieval animal illustrations that ...
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Interview with Amy Livingstone and Charlotte Cartwright, Editors of "Medieval People"
First of all, the 2022 International Congress on Medieval Studies is now just a few weeks away. We're very excited, looking forward to seeing all of you even if not quite back in person yet. But I do ...
This wild ancient version of soccer has rules like ‘no murder’ and is still being played today
It's described as one of the earliest forms of soccer with one ancient rule telling players not to murder each other.
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Trans people affirmed their gender without medical help in medieval Europe − history shows how identity transcends medicine and law
History, however, shows that withholding health care does not make transgender people go away. Scholarship of medieval literature and historical records reveals how transgender people transitioned ...