Polycarp Leyser

What happens when our oldest stories fail us? When all the rules have changed? The classic myth of Persephone — reimagined for a modern-day reader. P

The Epistle of Polycarp is usually made a sort of preface to those of Ignatius, for reasons which will be obvious to the reader. Yet he was born later

Examines the idea of communalism in African cultures as a dominant theme that provides the foundation for African traditional moral thoughts, moral ed

A Pevsner-like guide to the remains of Bede's England.

Arguing that the desperate struggle (led by Alfred the Great) against the Vikings helped define a distinctively English sensibility, the author explor

'Here lies our leader all cut down, the valiant man in the dust.' The elegiac words of the Battle of Maldon, an epic poem written to celebrate the bra

MEDIEVAL WOMEN looks at a thousand years of English history, as it affected - and was made by - women.

In the first half of this collection of Karl Leyser's studies on the high middle ages, two themes are especially explored. The first is the European a

Karl Leyser's intuitive and imaginative historical writing drew on deep reading in the primary sources and, above all, on an intimate knowledge of the

Spring and summer are my mother’s time, autumn and winter are my husband’s. What is left for me? Persephone spends six months of the year under the g