As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

Stories retelling the birth of the Virgin Mary reveal that the Church was more forgiving of infertility than the general ...

Louis Vuitton unveiled its Cruise 2025 collection in front of a star-studded audience inside a medieval castle, blending ...

Nicolas Ghesquière conjured pure theatrical magic delivering a Cruise 2026 collection that transformed medieval references ...

Louis Vuitton's latest Cruise show was held in a 14th century palace, and was attended by Emma Stone, Sophie Turner and ...

What Was Life Really Like for Women in Medieval Times' Medieval historian Dr Eleanor Janega investigates one of the least recorded aspects of medieval life - working women. But dig deep and you ...

Before the first printing press was invented in the 15th century, books had to be made by hand. It was the monks who were usually put to work making parchment and ink, writing out text, and ...

There were certain commonalities in clothing throughout the medieval period ... and kept the more expensive fabrics clean. Men and women alike wore wool hose and garters on the legs.

Wealthier prostitutes attempted to dress like bourgeois women ... Whether noblewomen, peasants, craftswomen, nuns, recluses, “fallen women,” or accused witches, medieval women lived vastly diverse ...

(Zoltán Faur/Luca Kis) As Tihanyi explained to Sandee Oster at Phys.org, men in medieval European cultures were typically buried with functional items like tools and knives, or occasionally practical ...