Irit Kleiman is an associate professor of Romance studies at Boston University.

Gold Icon Armchair travel in the Middle Ages

At the Morgan Library in New York, a selection of guides to foreign lands reveals a bustling Middle Ages full of fantastical visions

23 Apr 2025

Gold Icon The real saints and scribes of medieval Europe, celebrity edition

The British Library’s exhibition of women in the Middle Ages who were creative and intellectual pioneers is a red-carpet affair

8 Feb 2025

Court in the middle – the arts in France under Charles VII

In the first half of the 15th century, artists drew on the Northern and Italian Renaissances to create a distinctly French cultural flowering

1 May 2024