Medieval Scribbles

Perhaps next week I’ll go back to murdering more characters, but for today a little bit of nonsense can be good for the soul. The hills ge...

Having walked past these medieval remains so frequently they have begun to blend into the background, and yet with a splash of colour and so...

An illustration of St Norbert from a twelfth-century manuscript of the Vita Sancti Norberti . Norbert was the founder of the Premonstrat...

“I’m looking for a woman.” The dominating figure darkened the doorway of the brothel, the stranger’s spurs resonating against the uneven fla...

“What do you think it’s like? Being old I mean.” My younger self muses with feigned thoughtfulness. Everything about this girl is forced and...

This exquisite Eve is in fact part of an original fourteenth-century pavement. She can be found with a slightly faded Adam and serpent ...

There can’t   be too many days in a year that you find yourself sitting in the British Library, eating a posh sandwich and speaking a little...