An unstoppable disease.A fanatical doctor.A nightmare obsession.As a deadly plague rips through Harriet's village, unexpected salvation arrives in Adam: the bright-eyed novice healer with a hidden gift, who vanishes as quickly as he came. Haunted by weird nightmares and a witch's dying words, Harriet seeks the truth about Adam and his mysterious home at Wolfern Priory.But the world of healers is changing. Th...

Anglo-Saxon farming has traditionally been seen as the wellspring of English agriculture, setting the pattern for 1000 years to come – but it was more important than that. A rich harvest of archaeological data is now revealing the untold story of agricultural innovation, the beginnings of a revolution, in the age of Bede. Armed with a powerful new dataset, Farming Transformed explores fundamental questions about the minutiae of early medieval farming and its wider relevance. How old were s...

A brutal war.An ancient curse.A monster unleashed.Terrible memories are stirred in Harriet’s heart when she finds the body of a man on Wither Moor. Who is he? And what really happened on the weird night of his arrival? Harriet sets out to unravel the mystery, little knowing how much is truly at stake.Meanwhile, troubling rumours creep across the land – rumours of war. A retired captain, yearning for vengeanc...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The population of England grew steeply in the Middle Ages, especially between the tenth and thirteenth centuries. This volume investigates how medieval farmers managed to produce the large harvests needed to sustain this growth, growth that in turn fuelled a major expansion...