“Matrix,” Lauren Groff’s first novel since 2015’s acclaimed “Fates and Furies,” takes readers to a dank English island during the late 12th and 13th centuries in the spirited company of a woman ...

The papal palace in Avignon, where the pope's court was based for much of the 14th century. Jean-Marc Rosier from http://www.rosier.pro/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA In ...

In the popular imagination, “medieval” and “women” aren’t always words which go together happily. Ideas about the lives of pre-Renaissance women tend to form two hazy stereotypes: an illiterate girl ...

When you read the subtitle of the new memoir, "California Medieval: Nearly A Nun in 1960s San Francisco," if you're of a certain age, you might immediately recall The Singing Nun, the Belgian ...