The Secret Middle Ages: Discovering the Real Medieval World

The Middle Ages are known as a god-fearing time, a time of hard work and of squalid living conditions for the majority of the population – or as a time of opulence that graced only the courts and halls of the reigning monarch. In The Secret Middle Ages, Malcolm Jones presents a completely fresh view of the medieval world that will blow all stereotypes out of the water.

Using a wealth of little-known and recently discovered artefacts, and drawing particularly on humbler artworks, Jones paints...