Daily Medieval

As mentioned recently, since questions of health were managed almost entirely by men, questions about specific women's health issues wer...

We talked here about how women and Jewish women could be physicians in the Middle Ages, but it would be a mistake to think that there was n...

Female doctors were not unknown in medieval Europe. I've written before of Trotula , for instance, and of course there were midwives . T...

Christians and Jews living in Muslim-controlled lands in the Iberian Peninsula were subject to Sharia Law...to a point. Sharia ( sharī'a...

Women weaving Guilds in the Middle Ages seemed to exist for every conceivable occupation (except, perhaps,  midwifery ). What about wom...

The posts called The Marrying Kind (Parts 1 , 2 , and 3 ) mentioned Zoe Porphyrogenita's nephew Michael confining her to "the wome...

Madonna of the Recommended, Lippo Memmi (c.1291 - 1356) Cosmetics were known as far back as early Egyptian culture, so it is no surprise...

Silk was not a medieval invention. According to Chinese tradition , Empress Si-Ling-Chi in 2460 BCE watched silkworms spinning cocoons; she ...

It is not uncommon for the term "medieval" to be used negatively, to connote an action or opinion that is primitive or uncivilized...

Beer/ale has been brewed since the days of the Roman Empire. I suppose we should say that ale has been brewed that long, and beer came lat...