Miri RubinMiri Rubin is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London, where she specialises in European history between the eleventh and sixteenth-centuries. She is the author of, most recently, Mother of God: A History ofthe Virgin Mary (2009), The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages (2005) and The Middle Ages: A Very Short Introduction (2014). She has made numerous media appearances including the radio programmes In Our Time and Making History for BBC Radio 4. Read More Read Less