David Abulafia

Classical Connections

The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found – A History in Seven Cities

By Violet Moller

November 2018 Issue

Tim Smith-Laing

The Venerable Bod

Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages

By Jack Hartnell

LR

October 2018 Issue

Levi Roach

Oh What A Knight

King Arthur: The Making of the Legend

By Nicholas J Higham

LR

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

LR

August 2018 Issue

Thomas Shippey

Move Over, St George

Edmund: In Search of England’s Lost King

By Francis Young

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

February 2017 Issue

George Bernard

Reaching for the Heavens

Fifty English Steeples: The Finest Medieval Parish Church Towers and Spires in England

By Julian Flannery

LR

December 2016 Issue

Thomas Shippey

No Arthur

Charlemagne

By Johannes Fried (Translated by Peter Lewis)

LR

November 2016 Issue

John Man

Obscure Empires Brought to Light

The History of Central Asia: The Age of Islam and the Mongols

By Christoph Baumer (Translated by Martina Dervis & Dafydd Roberts)

LR

August 2016 Issue

Jonathan Sumption

Man of Few Words

Henry V: The Conscience of a King

By Malcolm Vale

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February 1994 Issue

Hilary Mantel

Monks Before Women

Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages

By Georges Duby

March 1992 Issue

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

LR

April 2016 Issue

Louise Wilkinson

Menus of the Middle Ages

The Culture of Food in England 1200–1500

By C M Woolgar

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February 2016 Issue

John Adamson

Divided We Stand

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

By Peter H Wilson

LR

October 2015 Issue

Melissa Harrison

In Search of the Pig-Headed Princess

The Land of the Green Man: A Journey through the Supernatural Landscapes of the British Isles

By Carolyne Larrington

October 2015 Issue

Peter Sarris

Beware of Latins Chasing Debts

The Lost World of Byzantium

By Jonathan Harris

LR

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

LR

May 2015 Issue

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

LR

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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