Medieval
1066 and all that Revised
Cultural cataclysm or merely a modification of an Anglo-Saxon status quo? Antonia Gransden looks at views, past and present, of the Norman conquest.
Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam
by Patricia Crone
Pox and Paranoia in Renaissance Europe
J.S. Cummins considers the impact of syphilis on the 16th-century world – a tale of rapid spread, guilt, scapegoats and wonder-cures, with an uncomfortable modern resonance.
The Byzantine Secrets of Procopius
Judith Herrin considers the Jekyll-and-Hyde output of Justinian's court historian, alternately respectful official chronicler and tabloid-style exposer of imperial scandal.
Great Zimbabwe's Trading Past
The grandest African ruins south of the Sahara and the enigmatic discovery of Ming China there.
The Images of St Dunstan
Tim Tatton-Brown reviews the picture of one of Anglo-Saxon England's best-known saints built up at a major exhibition in Canterbury for the millennium of his death.
The Margins of Society in Late Medieval Paris
by Bronislaw Geremek
Faces of Crime in Later Medieval England
J.B. Post builds a rich image of the world of criminality and justice at the end of the Middle Ages.
Painting in Medieval England: The Wall-to-Wall Message
Pamela Tudor-Craig looks at complex allegories, moral and theological, conveyed in images of considerable beauty which are still being recovered today.