On 7 February 2025, Natasha Hodgson presented the lecture ‘Dangerous Journeys: Framing Women’s Movement in the Medieval World’ at the Royal Historical Society. In this lecture she tackled traditional notion that medieval women were restricted in their movement, highlighting the…
A short video about the life of Melisende of Jerusalem, the twelfth-century queen and co-ruler of Jerusalem. This clip comes from an animation made by Teaching Medieval Women and Palette Productions at Nottingham Trent University. You can watch the full…
A short video about the life of Shajar al-Durr, a slave girl who rose to become Sultana of Egypt in the thirteenth century. This clip comes from an animation made by Teaching Medieval Women and Palette Productions at Nottingham Trent…