Medieval

Nigel Saul reviews a work by C. M. Woolgar

Alexander II died on July 8th, 1249, aged fifty. His reign was often later remembered in Scotland as a golden age.

J.S. Hamilton weighs the evidence and concludes that Edward II and his notorious favourite were more than just good friends.

Raymond E Role explores the evolution of the intramural games that began in the Middle Ages and still flourish in Italy today.

Brian Golding looks at life under the Norman Yoke during the consolidating reign of Henry I.

Jonathan Hughes describes how the new classical-inspired education given to young members of the aristocracy in the fifteenth century laid the foundations for future English ideas of education, empire and public service.

Archaeologists in Turkey believe they could have unearthed some of the remains of the Great Palace of the Byzantine Empire which ruled much of the known world for nearly a thousand years from the heart of Constantinople.

Dominic Janes describes how the early Church reconciled its teaching of holy poverty with the accumulation and display of spectacular wealth.

In this assessment of Tudor peers, Matthew Christmas argues that the nobility retained their importance as a class and are fundamental to an understanding of the Tudor period.