Pragya Agarwal received funding from Society of Authors for this research and writing of Hysterical. Medieval Europe was a place of great emotional incontinence. So much so that historian Johan ...
London’s Victoria & Albert Museum is to exhibit ‘surviving examples of exquisite craftsmanship’ in English Medieval embroidery, encompassing gold, silver and pearl work fit for, and indeed used by, a ...
Crimson velvet and glittering gold make the heart beat faster, and the V&A’s new show of 100 works of priceless medieval embroidery does just that. Swirling ecclesiastic copes smothered in beautifully ...