Historian and host of the Gone Medieval podcast Eleanor Janega ranks the most stylish women’s fashion from the medieval period. From the extravagant houppelande to the humble chemise, Eleanor scores ...

Medieval women viewed birthing girdles, or long pieces of parchment inscribed with religious invocations and drawings, as protective talismans. Courtesy of the Wellcome Collection Giving birth during ...

Rich is the word that describes the 2023-24 Elie Saab fall and winter collection. Collections from this maison are always the same and predictable in their sartorial storytelling yet somehow, Saab is ...

Few can deny that the various burkini bans put in place by towns on the French Riviera this summer have become symbolic of the country's struggle over "secular identity." The bans have seemed ...

Those inclined to see our era as a feminist golden age will find a timely corrective in “The Once and Future Sex,” medieval historian Eleanor Janega’s accessible and entertaining study of how women ...

This 12th-century manuscript includes a self-portrait of a female scribe named Guda. Ommundsen et al. / Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2025 During the Middle Ages, it was common to ...