Medieval Europe was a place of great emotional incontinence. So much so that historian Johan Huizinga claimed: “Modern man has no idea of the unrestrained extravagance of the medieval heart.” Crying ...

Margaret Paston, who lived through the Wars of the Roses, collected the letters in secret, because some contained subversive views and plots The earliest recorded begging letter is being marked with a ...

In Janan Ganesh’s insightful “Citizen of nowhere” column (“Why the urban rebirth surprised the media”, Opinion, Life & Arts, August 13) he says he shivered “at the memory of the medieval silence” of ...

Medieval nun fakes death to escape convent and enjoy a life of carnal lust. Sounds like the basis for a juicy novel, but this really happened during the 14th century in England. Archivist and ...

The letter is signed "Written at Caister, the 10th day of July. Your cousin, John Fastolf." A letter that forms part of the oldest record of private correspondence in English surviving in Britain is ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. An Australian has upset the French with claims he's identified the "lost" correspondence of Abelard and Heloise, reports Jane Sullivan.

Espionage, sex, public humiliation, murder - these may sound like tropes straight out of Game of Thrones, but they're actually all elements of a nearly 700-year-old cold case in England. After ...

Image caption, Margaret Paston, who lived through the Wars of the Roses, collected the letters in secret, because some contained subversive views and plots The earliest recorded begging letter is ...