Research Archive

This month, myself and 35 other intrepid pilgrims travelled to Fowey to begin our 8-day sailing adventure to A Coruna before then walking...

The Missing Link: Tracing Freemasonry's Roots in the Medieval Kingdom of Aragon The genesis of chivalric freemasonry is a subject steeped...

In June, a spirited group of 36 pilgrims, myself included, will embark on an exhilarating two-week odyssey across both land and sea,...

I have been very fortunate through my travels to have hiked volcanoes in Indonesia, the Annapurna mountain range in Nepal, and the...

"Women of the Anarchy" by Sharon Bennett Connolly is a captivating exploration of the often-overlooked female figures who played pivotal...

As with most English monastic communities by the early thirteenth century, parentage, institutional structure, and monastic activity can...

The following is an extract from my upcoming book 'Saints and Sinners: A New History of the Middle Ages Through Saints and their Stories'...

After the fourth crusade, the fervour that had once sung in the hearts and minds of those a century earlier had faded. In some ways,...

There is a theory within cosmology that describes a possible event whereby an imploding universe bounces back and reignites through a Big...

To pinpoint a specific moment in time when our dramatic epoch came into existence is one of the most difficult questions posed to the...

There is no doubt that September 19th, 2022, will forever be marked by one of the most momentous events in recent memory and current...

In his ‘Liber Miraculorum Sancte Fidis’, 11th century churchman and sceptic, Bernard of Angers reported hearing of strange miracles, and...

The narrative of the twelfth century is one defined by kingship, religion, and violence. The crusades in the East, combined with a crisis...

The Commercialisation of Saints in Medieval England, 11th - 13th Century During the period in which the silver shrine of Saint Erkenwald...