The cult of saints is one of the most fascinating manifestations of medieval piety. It was intensely physical; saints were believed to be present in the bodily remains that they had left on earth. Medieval shrines were created in order to protect these relics and yet to show off their spiritual wort[...]

The argument is that the teaching and experience of English in England over those two decades have to be understood not simply in terms of 'subject history' or the internal ebbs and flows of a professional community but, far more interestingly, as one domain in which the life of the time was being l[...]

'Salisbury Cathedral', a famously beautiful work of ecclesiastical architecture, was erected within about 40 years in a single style (Early English Gothic), the only substantial additions being the tower and spire, which were completed by about 1330. Tim Tatton-Brown reveals the story of how a great[...]