Jonathan Sumption

Man of Few Words

Henry V: The Conscience of a King

By Malcolm Vale

Hilary Mantel

Monks Before Women

Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages

By Georges Duby

Ann Geneva

Nancy Reagan was Following an Ancient Tradition

Courting Disaster: Astrology at the English Court and University in the Later Middle Ages

By Hilary M Carey

Louise Wilkinson

Menus of the Middle Ages

The Culture of Food in England 1200–1500

By C M Woolgar

John Adamson

Divided We Stand

The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe’s History

By Peter H Wilson

Peter Sarris

Beware of Latins Chasing Debts

The Lost World of Byzantium

By Jonathan Harris

R I Moore

Doubting Thomas

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

By E M Rose

Jonathan Sumption

What a Rotter

King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta

By Marc Morris

King John: England, Magna Carta and the Making of a Tyrant

By Stephen Church

Christopher Tyerman

Flower of Chivalry

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

By Thomas Asbridge

Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination

Pungent Unguents

Paul Freedman

By Yale University Press 275pp £20

Nicholas Vincent

Devil’s Advocates

The War on Heresy: Faith and Power in Medieval Europe

By R I Moore