The 14th-century nun apparently faked her own death by creating a dummy “in the likeness of her body” before running away from her convent, according to archivists at the University of York. Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York A close-up image of a marginal note in Latin about Joan of Leeds. Some women owned real estate or worked in retail, Rees Jones said. But whatever life they might have carved out for themselves, all those women still lived in a largely “patriarchal society,” Rees Jones said. Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York Gary Brannan, an archivist, and Sarah Rees Jones, director of the University of York's Centre for Medieval Studies, examine one of the registers of the archbishops of York.

Source: Huffington Post February 12, 2019 22:30 UTC