(CNN) — When the brick coffin of a young woman from medieval Italy was opened after its discovery in 2010, two peculiar things stood out to the researchers: There was a perfect hole in the frontal ...

Historian and author Helen Castor, presenter of the popular series She-Wolves, explores how the people of the Middle Ages handled the most fundamental moments of transition in life: birth, marriage ...

Through modern science, the grim discovery of a Medieval woman's remains is able to tell the tale of a "coffin birth" and ancient brain surgery. Despite the macabre nature of the grim discovery of a ...

Pregnancy in the Middle Ages was extremely dangerous. There were no sterile conditions or modern medical knowledge. Complications were poorly understood and rarely treated effectively. Midwives relied ...

Researchers have made a rare discovery - a medieval woman who died while pregnant who also had early form of neurosurgery, as well as, a coffin birth. A young woman, who experts believe was between ...

This blog post is authored by Mary Morse, author of MIP's English Birth Girdles: Devotions for Woman in "Travell of Childe." Mary Morse specializes in medieval women’s devotional and childbirth ...