Historian Helen Castor reveals how the Catholic Church tried to control marriage from the 12th century onwards, as a way to contain the troubling issue of sex.
20-08-2018
BBC 4
Helen Castor reveals how the moment of labour and birth was one of the most dangerous times for a medieval woman, with no antiseptics or anaesthetics available.
13-08-2018
BBC 4
Helen Castor reveals how being remembered shaped not only the worship of the people of the Middle Ages but the very buildings and funding of the medieval Church itself.
12-06-2014
BBC 4