As I announced back in March, I've been working on a new book, and now it's out! It's called "Still Medieval After All These Years," and it started life with this blog.
The book's purpose is to discuss some aspects of medieval society I never got to in my first so-called blog book, "Positively Medieval: Life and Society in the Middle Ages."
Specifically, I have much more to same about peasants, their status and opportunities, and about food and beverage. (Did you know lasagna is probably a Norman dish? Introduced by them into Italy? No tomato sauce, though.). Then I go on to discuss how medieval buildings were built, how medieval people kept healthy, and a lot on the medieval church and religion.
But the newest aspect is a focus on how much modern society owes to the Middle Ages, whether we want to acknowledge it or not. Even though we've decided we are "modern," the medieval keeps tempting us, including (strangely enough) notions that somehow life was better then and that we should be able to use the Middle Ages as a model for a racially and religiously pure society. (Um, that's not going to work.)
(I also talk about medieval-themed fantasy fiction. That aspect is fine.)
Anyway, the book is now available on Amazon, both as an ebook and a paperback. Here's the paperback link. (If you don't see both ebook and paperback, click "see all formats" next to the title.). It will shortly be available on all major ebook platforms and will be able to be ordered through any bookstore.
The ebook has color pictures if you read on a computer or tablet, black and white on a Kindle or as a paperback. They're all my photos, so you get in effect a travelogue as well as social history. Hope you enjoy!
© C. Dale Brittain 2026
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