It’s Valentine’s Day, and it’s snowing. No problem. I’ve curled up with a box of chocolates and a couple of good books. Today, they’re all about courtly love. Back in the 12th century, in the age of ...

A 13th or 14th Century medieval brooch inscribed with words of love from the age of chivalry has been discovered in a field. The "chunky wodge of gold" was unearthed by a metal detectorist in a field ...

For all the tabloid fuss and docudramas, the messy love lives of today’s British royals seem like pallid reflections of monarchical scandals past. The personalities are smaller, the stakes so much ...

In the historian Sarah Gristwood’s “The Tudors in Love,” for both monarchs and courtiers the stakes are higher than romance. Card one, clockwise from top: Henry VIII; Mary I; Queen Elizabeth I. Card ...

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