The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
The Great Siege of Malta, by Marcus Bull The military phenomenon of the siege, Marcus Bull reminds us, has a long history in the western literary tradition. And yet, despite their famous literary instances, such as the siege of Jericho as detailed in the Old Testament...
The second volume of David Carpenter’s magisterial two-part biography of King Henry III covers the latter fourteen years of his reign, 1258-1272. It opens with the revolutionary events of 1258, in fact more far-reaching than 1215’s Magna Carta, when a group of armed...
Ronald Hutton’s Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe examines four goddess-like figures from the medieval period to the present day: Mother Earth, the Fairy Queen, the Lady of the Night, and the Cailleach. Packed with detail and insight – Hutton...
