Levi Roach

Jul 10, 2024 | thetablet.co.uk | Levi Roach

St Henry II of GermanyHenry II, Germany’s great saint-monarch, died on 13 July 1024.

May 29, 2024 | thetablet.co.uk | Levi Roach

In Boniface, a pious missionary from the edges of Christendom, we may hear a faint echo of Pope FrancisThe structures and institutions of the Church have been in a constant process of adaptation and reinvention ever since the Age of the Apostles. Get Instant AccessRegister for free to read this article in fullSubscribe for unlimited accessFrom just £30 quarterly  Complete access to all Tablet website content including all premium content.

Feb 2, 2024 | historytoday.com | Levi Roach

The Middle Ages are the goldilocks period: enough sources that discoveries remain possible, but not so many that you lose perspective. That people at any given time are unlikely to be good judges of what’s really going on (and why). Geoff Koziol’s Politics of Memory and Identity in Carolingian Royal Diplomas. Janet L. Nelson’s Charlemagne: King and Emperor. When Henry I was elected king of Germany in 919. Simon Keynes.

May 10, 2023 | thetablet.co.uk | Levi Roach

In the sixth of our conversion stories, a long-term agnostic recalls how, at his daughters’ christening, he found himself longing to be baptised with them / By LEVI ROACHGet Instant AccessRegister for free to read this article in fullFrom just £30 quarterly  Complete access to all Tablet website content including all premium content.   The full weekly edition in print and digital including our 179 years archive.   PDF version to view on iPad, iPhone or computer. Already a subscriber? Login

Mar 8, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Levi Roach |Judith Green |Tom Shippey

The Viking Age​ is generally agreed to have ended, as far as England was concerned, on 25 September 1066, when Harald Harðráði, or ‘Hardline Harald’, was killed and his army all but annihilated at Stamford Bridge.