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2 days ago · As intriguing as filing teeth is, the skulls of three women are even more puzzling. Skull modification is a rarer phenomenon in Viking Age Gotland, with only three known cases, all of which are ...
2 days ago · There was a woman at Alexandria named Hypatia, daughter of the philosopher Theon, who made such attainments in literature and science, as to far surpass all the philosophers of her own time. Having succeeded to the school of Plato and Plotinus, she explained the principles of philosophy to her auditors, many of whom came from a distance to ...
2 days ago · In the Byzantine Empire, the very ideal of gender segregation created economic opportunities for women as midwives, doctors, bath attendants and artisans since it was considered inappropriate for men to attend to women's needs.
2 days ago · An example from the field of Byzantine studies is Roland Betancourt’s Byzantine Intersectionality. 6 While it is not the first work to engage with transness in Byzantium, Betancourt’s book is the first to name people in the Byzantine world as trans, reframing our perception of the so-called ‘transvestite saints’ to move us away from one ...
4 days ago · 2. Queen Melisende (r. 1131-53) Melisende and Fulk, 13th century. Source: The BBC. It was rare for a woman in the medieval world, particularly in the Middle East, to make a list of the greatest monarchs. However, Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem, thoroughly deserves her place.
4 days ago · One is Edith Stein, a remarkable woman who earned a doctorate in philosophy in the 1930s, when this field was largely composed of males. Born into a Jewish family, she converted to Catholicism and became a philosophy instructor before entering religious life, taking the name Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.
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6 days ago · Ordination of women. First woman Mariavite bishop Maria Izabela Wiłucka-Kowalska was consecrated in 1929 in Plock. Katharine Jefferts Schori was elected in 2006 as the first female Presiding Bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Church and also the first female primate in the Anglican Communion.
