Medieval women used falconry to subvert gender norms

Hawks offered women both real and symbolic means to express gender, power and status within a male-dominated world.
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Medieval Women: In Their Own Words at the British Library is unmissable

Diane Watt has received funding from the AHRC, British Academy and Leverhulme Trust. The British Library’s breathtaking new exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, brings to life the ...
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In France, this medieval hilltop village, with its 14th century houses, is a little-known yet amazingly picturesque destination

This medieval village in the Lot valley, up on a cliff above the river, looks like something straight out of a novel. Saint-Cirq-Lapopie is a charming place of narrow streets, corbelled houses and ...