How to Be a Medieval Woman

The fascinating story of female experience during the medieval era, evoking the lives of these women with depth, nuance, and humanity.

Women in the Middle Ages led fascinating and often wildly differing everyday lives, depending on their social class and family situation. Yet their wealth of experience has long been obscured and overshadowed by the experiences of men, with history books often relegating women to a single, catchall chapter, as if their lives formed a unified story.

While a nu...