These Rare Artifacts Tell Medieval Women's Stories in Their Own Words

Meilan Solly Senior Associate Digital Editor, History During an impromptu game of table tennis in September 1934, a player accidentally stepped on the ball. The host’s father decided to look for a replacement in a cupboard at their English country house. Instead of table tennis balls, the family patriarch stumbled onto an “entirely undisciplined clutter of smallish leather books,” including one whose cover “had…