When people belonging to peasant communities in late medieval Sweden prayed to God they usually stood up and put their palms together. That was how they displayed their devotion before God. This is ...

When people talk about women in the workplace, more often than not they discuss it as a new phenomenon. Women, we are given to understand, emerged to gain a foothold in the office as a part of the ...

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Forget royal feasts – the daily diet of a medieval peasant was humble, repetitive, and shaped by hard labor and seasonal harvests. In this video, we explore what the average person actually ate during ...