The Medieval Realms is enjoyable to use for reading or answering questions. It covers all the topics for Year 7 study of 1066-1500. The book doesn't just focus on major battles and events, but also on life for ordinary people in the Middle Ages. Each page has a variety of colourful picture sources and written sources, both primary and secondary. Each spread has graded questions, sometimes focusing on extracting information from the sources.

This book describes the historical emergence and spread of the to-infinitive in English. It shows that to infinitive emerged from a reanalysis of the preposition to plus a deverbal nominalization, which spread first to purpose clauses, then to other nonfinite environments. The book challenges the traditional reasoning that infinitives must have been nouns in Old English because they inflected for dative case and can follow prepositions. Dr Los shows that as early as Old English the to-infinitive was established in most of the environments in which it is found today. She argues that its spread was largely due to competition with subjunctive that-clauses, which it gradually replaced. Later chapters consider Middle English developments.