Pragya Agarwal received funding from Society of Authors for this research and writing of Hysterical. Medieval Europe was a place of great emotional incontinence. So much so that historian Johan ...

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 ...

Learn more about the Medieval Murder Maps project that helped shed light on a nearly 700-year-old cold case. Image of the Archbishop of Canterbury's letters to the Bishop of Winchester on the subject ...

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 ...