Medieval Europe was a place of great emotional incontinence. So much so that historian Johan Huizinga claimed: “Modern man has no idea of the unrestrained extravagance of the medieval heart.” Crying ...

In Janan Ganesh’s insightful “Citizen of nowhere” column (“Why the urban rebirth surprised the media”, Opinion, Life & Arts, August 13) he says he shivered “at the memory of the medieval silence” of ...

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 ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Letter news every morning. Camilla Cavendish’s opinion piece (Opinion, FT Weekend, April 8) makes an unfavourable comparison between ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Medieval Europe was a place of great emotional incontinence. So much so that historian Johan Huizinga claimed :“Modern man has no idea of the unrestrained extravagance of ...