A Short History of Parliament is a comprehensive institutional history, not a political history of parliament, though politics is included where, a...

An examination of the ways in which the fluid concept of "chivalry" has been used and appropriated after the Middle Ages. One of the most difficult...

Much criticised as weed-infested, badly cultivated and disfigured by the dung heap before the cottage door, eighteenth-century cottage gardens prod...

By Ann Willams An interest in the middle ages often brings the non-specialist reader up short against a word or term which is not understood or onl...

Medieval cartularies are one of the most significant sources for a historian of the Middle Ages. Once viewed as simply repositories of charters, ca...