But while they were discouraged from expressing their feelings in daily life, letters written by elite women of the medieval period are a rich source of information about their emotions.

Panels on the octagonal font in the nave of St. Margaret’s church have medieval markings thought to bring luck or protect from evil.(Courtesy Matthew Champion, Norfolk and Suffolk Medieval ...

Medieval? The very word has evil phonetically embedded in it. Certain non-European political positions today are regularly and pejoratively dismissed as medieval. And then, dear reader ...