Italy's First Northern League?
Edward Coleman weighs up Modern Italy's Northern League against its medieval Lombard inspiration.
Medieval
The Trauma of 1066
Elizabeth van Houts reconstructs memories of occupation (with echoes of the 1940s) from post-Norman conquest chronicles.
New Prospects from Renaissance Tuscany
Richard Hodges wanders through the medieval village of Rocca in Tuscany.
When Did Scotland Become Scotland?
Dauvit Broun looks at the making of a nation, 1000-1300, which formed a crucial element in the shaping of medieval Britain.
Henry VII and Charles the Bold - Brothers Under the Skin?
Steven Gunn explores the surprising similarities between the impetuous Valois duke and the cautious Tudor pragmatist.
The Medieval Antipodes
Alison Peden looks at what the Middle Ages speculated on and thought was theologically correct about the edges of the medieval world.
Anglo-Saxon Double Monasteries
Monks and nuns living together: not a cause for scandal but, as Barbara Mitchell explains, an intriguing window onto the variety of monastic life - under the aegis of remarkable abbesses - before the Conquest.
Henry VII: Out of the Shadows?
We eavesdrop on Ian Dawson as he interrogates the sources and wonders whether the first Tudor was really so mysterious.
The Knight in Medieval England; & The Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple
Chivalry in the Middle Ages
Girls Growing Up In Later Medieval England
Teenage pregnancy and street gossip – but also lessons in housekeeping and good husbandry. Jeremy Goldberg draws on contemporary documents to assess the pluses and minuses of entering adulthood as a woman in the late Middle Ages.