Medieval

Peter Bowron looks into excavations found at a Middle Ages hospital in Scotland.

Cultural cataclysm or merely a modification of an Anglo-Saxon status quo? Antonia Gransden looks at views, past and present, of the Norman conquest.

by Patricia Crone

J.S. Cummins considers the impact of syphilis on the 16th-century world – a tale of rapid spread, guilt, scapegoats and wonder-cures, with an uncomfortable modern resonance.

Judith Herrin considers the Jekyll-and-Hyde output of Justinian's court historian, alternately respectful official chronicler and tabloid-style exposer of imperial scandal.

The grandest African ruins south of the Sahara and the enigmatic discovery of Ming China there.

Tim Tatton-Brown reviews the picture of one of Anglo-Saxon England's best-known saints built up at a major exhibition in Canterbury for the millennium of his death.

by Bronislaw Geremek

J.B. Post builds a rich image of the world of criminality and justice at the end of the Middle Ages.