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Publications

Easter: Britain’s Quirkiest churches

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

History Explorer: The merchant hall built on religious foundations

Reinterpreting the Middle Ages: From Medieval to Neo

An Archaeology of Sensory Experience: Pilgrimage in the Medieval Church, c.1170-c.1550.

My-Parish

Birth of an icon – Salisbury Cathedral

To be a pilgrim

Easter eggs, Jesus Christ and the Easter bunny: the history and origins of Easter

Sex and the (Vatican) City: a brief history of clerical celibacy

7 Controversial Saints

How to Become a Saint

Father, Son and Holy Goat? The Dark Side of Medieval Relics

Holy relics and celebrity mementos put heaven within reach

History Explorer: A masterpiece of Gothic grandeur: the Church of St Mary, Warwick

A Month in the Country (regular columns)

Bravado or Blunder?

How Notre-Dame endures

Viewpoints – the past in flames

Making Sense of Things

Material Cultures of Devotion in the Age of Reformations

History explorer: The wonder of medieval cathedrals

Making ‘Sense’ of the Pilgrimage Experience of the Medieval Church

Synaesthesia in Medieval Pilgrimage: The Case of St Neot’s shrine, Cornwall

Heritage & mission are not in conflict

Thomas Becket: Murder in the Cathedral

1066-1485: Faith & Devotion / The Feudal Age

Monks Behaving Badly

The Times Literary Supplement (Reviews)

How naughty was the past? The hidden depths of the medieval church

Those Walls Can Talk!

Heaven on Earth: The Lives and Legacies of the World’s Greatest Cathedrals

A Companion to Medieval Pilgrimage

The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain

Charting Chipeling: The Archaeology of the Kiplin Estate

Making “Sense” of the Pilgrim in the Late-Medieval and Reformation English Church

Newcastle and Northumberland: Roman and Medieval Architecture and Art

Pilgrim Routes of the British Isles

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  1. La Belle Iseul by William Morris, with Dr Emma Wells 23:49
  2. EMMA CIVILISATIONS 9:20