Medieval Women

Witchcraft in the Middle Ages

If you asked someone in Elizabethan England to explain what a witch was, you would receive a very clear and familiar description. Witches were, as everyone at that time knew, devil worshipping practitioners of black… Read More »Witchcraft in the Middle Ages

Women in the 15th Century – A Tale of Three Margarets

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In 1859 Mary Ann Evans published her first novel under the pen name ‘George Elliot’. She used a pseudonym because she did not believe Victorian society would take women as writers seriously. In the early… Read More »Women in the 15th Century – A Tale of Three Margarets