Look at any map of Europe from the Middle Ages or the early modern era, before the Industrial Revolution, and you will be overwhelmed by its dizzying incoherence—all of those empires, kingdoms, ...
Installation view of Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages at The Met Cloisters showing a sculpture of Saint Sebastian (Northern Europe, late 15th century) (all photos Emma ...
Queen Mary University of London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. My book Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe is about the ways newcomers were received and accepted ...