Amy Jeffs is an art historian specialising in the Middle Ages. She is the author of ‘Storyland: a New Mythology of Britain’ (riverrun) and her next book, ‘Wild Tales from Early Medieval Britain’, will be published this October.
This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette’s breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites
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Would medieval Christians have blushed at a giant chalk erection?
Even if the Cerne Abbas giant is Anglo-Saxon, that doesn’t make it pagan – after all, Christians were no prudes in those days