In a moment of distraction from the laborious work of marking an “enormous pile of examination papers”, J.R.R. Tolkien flipped ... to the study of medieval literature. Tolkein’s first ...

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.

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 ...

The Paston family took their name from the village of Paston near Mundesley. The medieval letters come to an end just as the family achieved many of its goals, but the Pastons continued to be one ...

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.