The resort to law was an integral and regular part of everyday life in medieval Britain – and not just for men. Town court records offer glimpses into the lives of hundreds of ordinary women, through the lawsuits they were involved in.
Saint or sinner? Recent demonstrations in the American city of St. Louis are just the latest battle for the legacy of a medieval French king.
The fear that advances in technology and comfort bring isolation and complacency is never far away.
In the wake of the Spanish Armada, Elizabethan England sought retaliation by launching an invasion of its own. But how to finance such a venture?
The ruined temples of Cambodia’s medieval empire became symbols of a people who had forgotten their history. In reality, they demonstrate an inherent continuity.
A society portraitist who emigrated to Britain from Hungary found himself embroiled in a drama of divided loyalties during the First World War.
Believing language would unify their struggling nation, Chinese officials began a project to create a national language and define what it meant to speak Chinese.
How an individual act of resistance in 1850s’ New York led to the desegregation of the city’s transit system.
If we are to better understand the actions of conquistadors such as Hernán Cortés, we must place them in the context of a medieval worldview that predated the nation-state.
The belief that you are what you eat emerged in 19th-century France, where the pleasures of the table were sautéed with philosophy and medicine.
