Meghan Woolley is a historian of law and culture in the Middle Ages and a PhD candidate at Duke University in North Carolina, where she teaches academic writing and medieval history. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Written by Meghan Woolley

Medieval drawing of five men wearing tunics, some carrying staffs, gesturing and talking under colourful manuscript text.

The language of love in a 12th-century English law book

What a 12th-century English law book tells us about the social power of love and friendship in the Middle Ages – and today

by Meghan Woolley