Dark, dramatic and slightly unhinged, Weird Medieval fashion pulls from the Middle Ages to deliver a new era of power ...

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 ...

It is said clothes make the man, but in medieval times women were much better dressed than their male counterparts. Women often wore better quality clothes than men in the Middle Ages, an ...

Louise D'Arcens receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The Middle Ages might seem the last place feminists would go to seek inspiration. But from around the 1850s advocates for dress ...