Justine Firnhaber-Baker

‘What is the most common misconception about my field? That medieval people were dumber than modern ones.’

Dogged by rumours of stolen thrones and treachery, the Capetians were nonetheless one of the most successful dynasties of the medieval West.

How the societies that the Black Death affected were set on a path to global expansion.

An extravagantly entertaining account of a medieval ‘theatre state’.