Alexander Murray

Alexander Murray is finishing a book to be called The Poetry of Despair: The Birth of a Poetic Genre, the ‘Disperata’ in Early Renaissance Italy. It is a by-product of his continuing work on the third volume of Suicide in the Middle Ages. He is an emeritus fellow of University College, Oxford.

In the LRB Archive:

• Into Your Enemy’s Stomach: Louis IX · 8 April 2010

  • Saint Louis by Jacques Le Goff, translated by Gareth Evan Gollrad

• Protection Rackets: Gang Culture in the Middle Ages · 30 April 2009

  • The Crisis of the 12th Century: Power, Lordship and the Origins of European Government by Thomas Bisson

• The Sword is Our Pope: religion in Europe · 15 October 1998

  • The Conversion of Europe: From Paganism to Christianity, 371-1386 AD by Richard Fletcher

• The vanquished party, as likely as not innocent, was dragged half-dead to the gallows: Huizinga’s history of the Middle Ages · 19 March 1998

  • The Autumn of the Middle Ages by John Huizinga, translated by Rodney Payton

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