Jacques Le Goff, who has died aged 90, was the leading French medievalist of his generation and one of the major European historians of the 20th century. "The last of the greats", according to his ...

He was defending a professor against what he called a “smear.” That professor is Rachel Fulton Brown, a medievalist at the University of Chicago. And she is my guest on my latest Q&A.

BOOKS: What are you reading in text? JONES: I’m just about to finish “Annihilation” by Michel Houellebecq, whose work I’ve read all of. I quite like a bit of French misery. His work ...

Professor Grischa Vercamer is the new Heisenberg Professor at the University of Passau for the History of Eastern and Central European Cultures in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. In his ...