Pragya Agarwal received funding from Society of Authors for this research and writing of Hysterical. Medieval Europe was a place of great emotional incontinence. So much so that historian Johan ...

Margaret Paston, who lived through the Wars of the Roses, collected the letters in secret, because some contained subversive views and plots The earliest recorded begging letter is being marked with a ...

Sometimes the journey is as important as the destination. So it is for Emil J. Polak as he strides into the Bibliothèque Méjanes here. It is the 728th library -- nearly all of them in Europe -- that ...

God’s Own Gentlewoman is a biography of the late medieval landowner, housewife and letter writer, Margaret Paston. Born just over six centuries ago in rural Norfolk to a well-off family, Margaret was ...

Learn more about the Medieval Murder Maps project that helped shed light on a nearly 700-year-old cold case. Image of the Archbishop of Canterbury's letters to the Bishop of Winchester on the subject ...