The renowned historian and medievalist Caroline Walker Bynum has given many interviews, but none, until now, to a fellow medievalist. In what follows, Bynum discusses with literary critic Kathy Lavezz...

‘I was alone driving from the East Coast of Florida to Joshua Tree, in California. That was a normal thing to do after a breakup.’

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

From childhood, women are trained to restrict their appetite. And there’s a huge, hidden, cognitive price to pay for it

For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...