The first comprehensive exploration of women's multifaceted experiences of forced and consensual ravishment in medieval England.

What was the status of women in the Middle Ages? How have women fared in the hands of historians? And, what is the current state of research about women in the

Drawing on a wide body of evidence, the book argues that the support of women was vital to the persistence of piracy around the British Isles at least until the

Award-winning author Susan Higginbotham's The Stolen Crown is a compelling tale of one marriage that changed the fate of England forever On May Day, 1464, six-y

First full-length interdisciplinary study of the effect of these everyday surroundings on literature, culture and the collective consciousness of the late middl