Articles
I have written on a wide range of historical topics for publications including BBC History Magazine, Aeon, History Today, and The Atlantic- here are some highlights!
Medieval Advice for Living Forever (Time)
Lousy Saints (History Today)
5 ways our ancestors tried to get rid of bedbugs (History Extra)
Advice for (Medieval) Old Age (Wellcome Collection)
Troubled Waters: Reading Urine in Medieval Medicine (Public Domain Review)
Medieval Babycare (Aeon)
A Plethora of Penises: How People Wrote About Sex in the Middle Ages (Literary Hub)
Medieval Wellness (History Extra)
Sexy (medieval) times (Wellcome Collection)
Troubled in my eyes (Hektoen International)
How to live well (Wellcome Collection)
A sign of the devil or a miracle cure? (History Extra)
A brief history of handwashing (History Extra)
The Filthy Middle Ages? (BBC History Magazine)
Medieval parasites (Aeon)
Parasites and pests (Wellcome Collection)
Iconology of a cardinal (Public Domain Review)
Confession as therapy in the middle ages (Wellcome Collection)
The salacious middle ages (Aeon)
Call the medieval sex doctor (BBC History Magazine)
The saintliness of undecayed corpses (The Atlantic)
The Perils of Piety (History Today)
Articles on medieval and early modern sexuality (NOTCHES)