St William of York achieved the unique distinction of being elected archbishop of York twice and ...

England was more widely and enduringly francophone in the middle ages than many standard accounts...

Penance, confession and their texts (penitential and confessors' manuals) are important topics fo...

Examines the complex and contentious role of the obscene - what is offensive, indecent or morally...

Heresy is always relative; the traces that it leaves to us are distorted and one-sided. In the la...

When a Spanish monk struggled to find the right words to convey his unjust expulsion from a monas...

Cathars have long been regarded as posing the most organised challenge to orthodox Catholicism in...

Created in London c. 1340, the Auchinleck manuscript (Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland Adv...

The literature of the European Middle Ages attends closely to the relationship of brother and sis...

Medieval castles have traditionally been explained as feats of military engineering and tools of ...

The mass suicide and murder of the men, women and children of the Jewish community in York on 16 ...

The question and procedures of integrating children into wider society during the medieval and ea...