Books by Diana (King's College London Webb

The cult of the saints played a vital role in Italian political life in the Middle Ages. The saints were a unifying force for a city, and brought prestige and power to its rulers. This book is an intensely political study of an age in which religious experience was seen as part of everyday life.

The men and women who gathered at the Tabard Inn in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" are the most famous of the thousands of pilgrims who set off to the various shrines in the middle ages. This book looks at the most famous shrines, notably that of St Thomas Becket at Canterbury, and also describes the local pilgrimages and cults, their rise and fall.

Most people in the middle ages shared communal living space and lived most of their lives publicly in the midst of other people. This work traces what this meant for men and women growing sense of individuality.