Joanna Stafford, our intrepid ex-Dominican super sleuth is at it again. This time, she’s hurled straight into the midst of plotting and deception at Henry VIII’s court.
Under the Greenwood Tree : Outlaws in Medieval England and modern medievalist crime novels
January 27, 2013 By
A recurring theme in several medievalist crime novels is the subject of outlaws. They are used to create ambience, they can be the adversary and main threat to the protagonists, they can be cast in somewhat more heroic roles, and they are sometimes essential to the plot.
Spectacularizing Justice in Late Medieval England
November 28, 2012 By
I use the word ritual because in cases of treachery use of a general ‘script’ as ordered by these two accounts emerges with surprising frequency in England in the late 13th and early 14th century.
The Precognition of Crime: Treason in Medieval England and Terrorism in Twenty-first Century America
May 27, 2010 By
The Knight of the Two Swords in Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur (1485) tells a story of an invisible knight who without provocation kills other knights.
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