"There was no such thing as reproductive freedom for poor women in early modern Catholic Europe," states a recent article in ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Lara Dodds, professor and head of Mississippi State's Department of English, highlights the often-overlooked literary contributions of women in the early modern period in the new ...

Blondie taught us about the dangers of having a heart of glass, but for some people, that wasn’t a metaphorical problem. King Charles VI of France (1368-1422) literally believed he was made of glass.