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To have and to hold?: Sex, purity and piety in medieval marriage

by Elizabeth Goodwin on February 14, 2017

A couple of weeks ago on Spanish Sunday morning television, Sister Lucia Caram discussed a topic that can’t have failed to raise eyebrows over the weekend breakfast table: that of the Virgin Mary’s sex life.

Vikings: Re-writing the legend of Ragnar for the TV age

by Lee Norton on November 30, 2016

Michael Hirst’s historical drama Vikings returns to the History Channel in the US today following a mid-season break.The UK date

True heirs and true lies: Witnessing medieval life through the Tinsley Court Rolls

by Elizabeth Goodwin on August 24, 2016

In a family circus worthy of Jerry Springer, Mr Murray Pringle, a 74-year old accountant from High Wycombe, recently became

Hard to swallow? Myths and cultural memes about spiders

by Robyn Parker on March 2, 2015

There’s a (modern) urban myth that we swallow eight spiders every year in our sleep. Personally, I have had this

England, Arise by Juliet Barker: the reviews

by Frankie Baldwin on January 19, 2015

From the author of Agincourt comes a new interpretation of the Peasant's Revolt. Two University of Sheffield second-year history undergraduates put it

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ISIS and the Politics of the Middle Ages

by Julia McClure on September 12, 2014

This week the Guardian reporter Kevin McDonald took issue with Nick Clegg’s description of ISIS as “medieval”. McDonald reported: ‘given the extreme violence of Isis fighters and the frequent images of decapitated bodies, it is

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