Top ten modern medieval tales

Carolyne Larrington is Fellow and Tutor in Medieval English Literature at St John’s College, Oxford. Her books include Winter is Coming: The Medieval World of Game of Thrones. One of the author's ten top modern medieval tales, as shared at the Guardian:The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth (2014)

Anglo-Saxon scholars either love or hate Kingsnorth’s evocation of the shocking horrors brought about by the