The book of kells is a masterwork of medieval calligraphy and painting

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The Bayeux Tapestry is an amazing artefact – and it’s exceptional not least because of its very existence today. Precious few pieces of embroidery from the medieval period survive, let alone ones that

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Taking as many guises as his names, the Prince of Lies turned at times into a man-devouring ogre, a mutant medley of claws, horns and wings, or the brooding rebel that lit the imagination of Romantic painters, as Carla Passino discovers

I remember being strangely drawn to churches as a teenager. It wasn’t because I was, then, particularly religious, nor do I think that I was nosier than most people – after all I didn’t feel the same