Middle-class kids grew up with a keen awareness that financial security was fragile. Unlike the wealthy, who could make ...

It is about 8am, on the morning of the 23rd of January 1483. Anselm Adornes, a member of that famous family from Bruges, is ...

Gertrude of Merania, Queen of Hungary, and Agnès Sorel, the first officially recognised mistress to a French king. One a ...