The 'Régime du corps' depicts women's responsibilities in wealthy medieval households—and how domestic management advice was passed down.

In addition to parents and their children, medieval households frequently included various townspeople, poor married couples, other people’s children, widows, orphans, unrelated elderly people ...

It is commonplace to see images of cats in iconography of feasts and other domestic spaces, which appears to reflect their status as a pet in the medieval household.

I’m an art historian who recently published a book called Visualizing Household Health: Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Régime du corps about these magnificently illustrated copies.

A household in any time period consists of a person or people living in one house; but a household is not necessarily the same as a family. This entry will focus mostly on English households from ...

Experimental Archaeology Exhibition Posted by Kylie Owens for International Congress on Medieval Studies During the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies, we will be showcasing artisans and ...

Rapunzel doesn’t have anything on this damsel in distress. A British scholar who spent seven hours trapped inside a medieval tower freed herself Thursday using just an eyeliner pen and a cotton ...

Intrepid brewer risks scalding to recreate recipe for long-lost medieval mead The recipe for bochet was lost for centuries, until it was rediscovered in 2009.

Medieval illustrated manuscripts reveal how upper-class women managed healthy households overseeing everything from purging, leeching and cupping to picking the right wet nurse ...

In addition to parents and their children, medieval households frequently included various townspeople, poor married couples, other people’s children, widows, orphans, unrelated elderly people ...