Levi Roach

Who’ll Take the Helm?

The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

By Charles Spencer

July 2020 Issue

John Guy

Mystery of the Manuscript

The Book in the Cathedral: The Last Relic of Thomas Becket

By Christopher de Hamel

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July 2019 Issue

John Keay

Imprints of Persia

India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765

By Richard M Eaton

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April 2019 Issue

Robert Irwin

A Jihadist & a Gentleman

The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin

By Jonathan Phillips

April 2019 Issue

Peter Marshall

Too Female to Rule?

Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior

By Catherine Hanley

September 2018 Issue

Nicholas Vincent

The Devil Wears Ermine

The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown

By Nick Barratt

King of the North Wind: The Life of Henry II in Five Acts

By Claudia Gold

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June 2018 Issue

Christopher Tyerman

Occupational Hazards

The Siege of Acre, 1189–1191: Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the Battle That Decided the Third Crusade

By John D Hosler

October 2017 Issue

Mary Wellesley

Wed to Rule

Queens of the Conquest: England’s Medieval Queens 1066–1167

By Alison Weir

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September 2017 Issue

Robert Irwin

Knight Fever

The Templars: The Rise and Fall of God’s Holy Warriors

By Dan Jones

October 2015 Issue

R I Moore

Doubting Thomas

The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe

By E M Rose

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February 2004 Issue

A C Grayling

Missives from the Monastry

Heloise and Abelard: A Twelfth-Century Love Story

By James Burge

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February 2015 Issue

Christopher Tyerman

Flower of Chivalry

The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power behind Five English Thrones

By Thomas Asbridge

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June 2008 Issue

Richard Barber

Bones and Buboes

The Black Death: An Intimate History of the Plague

By John Hatcher

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March 2008 Issue

Richard Barber

A Very Busy Monarch

A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain

By Marc Morris

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May 2014 Issue

Leanda de Lisle

Mice, Locusts & Sodomy

Defending the City of God: A Medieval Queen, the First Crusades, and the Quest for Peace in Jerusalem

By Sharan Newman

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April 2012 Issue

Edward Norman

King Takes Bishop

Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim – A 900-Year-Old Story Retold

By John Guy

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May 2012 Issue

Nicholas Vincent

Devil’s Advocates

The War on Heresy: Faith and Power in Medieval Europe

By R I Moore

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May 2012 Issue

Leanda De Lisle

Broom for Improvement

The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England

By Dan Jones

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September 2012 Issue

Robert Irwin

Church Militant

The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, c 1070–1309

By Jonathan Riley-Smith

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