Medieval

Jon Cook identifies the mix of factors that helps explain the Florentine Renaissance.

To accompany the major exhibition opening at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Janet Backhouse explores the varied roles of patronage in the art of the later Middle Ages.

Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, died on October 9th, 1253, at his favourite manor house at Buckden in Huntingdonshire.

The succession of conflicts known as the Hundred Years War ended on October 19th, 1453, when Bordeaux surrendered, leaving Calais as the last English possession in France.

James Williams considers hunting as the ideal pastime for the nobility in the sixteenth century.

Richard Cavendish describes James IV of Scots and Margaret Tudor's wedding on August 8th, 1503.

Janet L. Nelson argues that the study of medieval history in British schools is just what the twenty-first century requires.

Michelle Brown, curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library, discusses new interpretations of this treasure, and how this month visitors to the Library will be able to get closer to it than ever before.

Richard Fletcher asks to what extent medieval Christians and Muslims sought to move beyond mutual hostility.

O.H. Creighton examines the many and varied reasons behind the siting of Norman castles, and considers their decisive effect on the cultural landscape of Britain.