Michael and Hannah visit the fourteenth century with Anya Seton's 1954 historical romance Katherine. Hannah, our resident medievalist, gets hot about the Middle Ages, and Michael gets quizzed on saints' gnarly iconography.

Books mentioned: Rose Tremain, Music and Silence; Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend; Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice; Provenance.

Saints mentioned: St Michael; St George; St Jerome; St Sebastian; St Peter Martyr; St Stephen; St Dennis; St Agatha; St Lucy; St Bartholemew; The Four Evangelists

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