Out of the Margins

Provincial museums, easy to overlook, remind us that everywhere matters.

We should take more notice of the work of those once despised and disregarded.

Archaeologists and historians are on the same side, despite what journalists say.

After 800 years, a playful medieval poem still offers lessons in how not to debate. 

A medieval masterpiece has much to say about the modern preoccupation with greed.

An Icelandic scholar exemplifies the rich cultural exchanges of the Middle Ages. 

If the English language had taken a different path, historians might not exist.

Medieval women wielded spiritual and political power in subtly effective ways. 

The unlikely links between an obscure English saint and a Viking warrior.

Visiting sites of importance can connect us with history – and each other – in a way that echoes the power of medieval pilgrimage.