Middle Ages

Book review

What’s wrong with being sentimental?

The revolutionary impact of emotion informs Ferdinand Mount’s ambitious cultural history, Soft

Tiffany Jenkins

Just how Pagan is Christmas?

Even local British seasonal activities which look genuinely primeval have turned out not to be

Ronald Hutton

The difficulties of writing historical fiction

Historians ask ‘What?’ Novelists ask ‘What if?’

Dan Jones

Miserable medieval women

The Wife of Bath: A Biography and The Once and Future Sex reviewed

Gillian Kenny

Education

The culture war over the Middle Ages

The left thinks it was too white while the Catholic New Right sees much to admire

David Marcus