How different are we from those in the past? Or, how different do we think we are from those in the past. Medieval people were more dirty and unhygienic than us – as novels, TV, and film would have us
As a figure of thought, the concept of freedom tends to shuttle between abstraction and ideal – the first exemplified by Isaiah Berlin's contrast between negative and positive liberty, and the s
A translation of The Book of the Civilised Man by Daniel of Beccles brings to light the social and cultural life of medieval people in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries through a previously little-
