Nuns and devout noblewomen were sometimes celebrated for their achievements in the literature of the medieval period, but more often than not these women only a

During the Middle Ages, many occult rituals and beliefs existed and were practiced alongside those officially sanctioned by the church. While educated clergy co

A close examination of religious texts illuminates the way in which parish priests dealt with their female parishioners in the middle ages.

An exploration of the influence of gender on the workings of memory in the Middle Ages, focussing on the non-elite.

Women's literary histories usually start in the later Middle Ages, but recent scholarship has shown that actually women were at the heart of the emergence of th