Historian and author Helen Castor, presenter of the popular series She-Wolves, explores how the people of the Middle Ages handled the most fundamental moments of transition in life: birth, marriage ...

When the brick coffin of a young woman from medieval Italy was opened after its discovery in 2010, two peculiar things stood out to the researchers: There was a perfect hole in the frontal bone of her ...

Image Credit: Deposit Photos. Being born in the Medieval era was a dangerous undertaking in itself. Infant mortality rates ...

Researchers have made a rare discovery - a medieval woman who died while pregnant who also had early form of neurosurgery, as well as, a coffin birth. A young woman, who experts believe was between ...

This blog post is authored by Mary Morse, author of MIP's English Birth Girdles: Devotions for Woman in "Travell of Childe." Mary Morse specializes in medieval women’s devotional and childbirth ...

Pregnancy and childbirth presented the medieval expectant mother with a whole host of challenges and dangers. Just as today, ...

Through modern science, the grim discovery of a Medieval woman's remains is able to tell the tale of a "coffin birth" and ancient brain surgery. Despite the macabre nature of the grim discovery of a ...

Rarely seen due to its age and rarity, a 500-year-old birthing girdle is currently on display at the Wellcome Collection.