October 27, 2022
Arc’s Fulfilment Service for customers and individuals outside North America (“Rest of the World”) is moving to Wiley Distribution with effect from November 1, 2022. Please email Wiley customer services at [email protected] or phone +44 (0)1243… READ MORE
September 12, 2022
It would require a particular talent to write a dull history of the crusades and there are many fine studies available covering virtually every aspect of the subject, from politics… READ MORE
September 5, 2022
Reviews It is so interesting how different things are looked at in the medieval time period versus when you start to actually learn about it and realize that not everything… READ MORE
My book asks what the old poem Beowulf can tell us about the history of the North in the post-Roman period, the fifth and sixth centuries – a place and a time… READ MORE
August 29, 2022
The Jewish community of Mantua started to produce plays in 1520 for carnival celebrations and civic spectacles to honor visiting dignitaries and to celebrate births and marriages of the reigning… READ MORE
Agnès Sorel (ca. 1426-50), the beautiful mistress of King Charles VII of France (1403-61), is a star. She appears regularly in popular histories, novels, documentaries, and, most recently, internet fan… READ MORE
At the time I was finishing the edits and proofs for my book Why Study the Middle Ages?, the trailer for the new film Medieval came out. I honestly at… READ MORE
June 6, 2022
Who is this book for? People who teach undergraduate medieval history courses, especially early career instructors and PhD. students. What inspired you to write this book? There is a gap between secondary… READ MORE
May 6, 2022
Can you tell us what Ethiopian Jewish ascetic religious communities are? And what inspired you to carry out research on them? When I first had a chance to learn about Betä… READ MORE
April 18, 2022
Nuns and sex: rumour or fact? Did nuns stay in touch with the outside? Despite ecclesiastical authorities insistence on enclosure, were nuns truly isolated? How did nuns in observant convents… READ MORE