Medieval

Christopher Dyer argues for an upgrading of the town’s importance in the Middle Ages.

Fools' gold, Dr Faustus - traditional images of a Renaissance black art. But was there more to it than that? Zbigniew Szydlo and Richard Brzezinski offer an intriguing rehabilitation.

The Eternal City was captured after a year-long siege on December 17th, 546.

Edward Coleman weighs up Modern Italy's Northern League against its medieval Lombard inspiration.

Elizabeth van Houts reconstructs memories of occupation (with echoes of the 1940s) from post-Norman conquest chronicles.

Richard Hodges wanders through the medieval village of Rocca in Tuscany.

Dauvit Broun looks at the making of a nation, 1000-1300, which formed a crucial element in the shaping of medieval Britain.

Steven Gunn explores the surprising similarities between the impetuous Valois duke and the cautious Tudor pragmatist.

Alison Peden looks at what the Middle Ages speculated on and thought was theologically correct about the edges of the medieval world.

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.