Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion ...
When the kingdom of Granada fell to Ferdinand and Isabella in January 1492, a humanist in their pay hailed ‘the extinction of Spain’s calamities’. The victory, according to a chronicler in the Basque ...
Finkel is almost as revelatory about himself as he is about the Bible text and the early history of civilisation. We see him wandering around the Study Room at the Museum, poking readers in the ribs ...