Life in the Middle Ages

 These days most people do not see a horse on most days.  Riding lessons are for the well-to-do (or for actors appearing costume dramas).  B...

 Roman civilization was city-based.  Outside of Rome itself the cities were small, at most ten thousand people and maybe only a few thousand...

 Earlier I posted about medieval fruits and vegetables , the mainstay of the diet for people who had access to a lot less meat than we do in...

 We constantly make distinctions between good and bad plants, especially as they are good or bad for us.  The distinction has a long history...

 I've earlier discussed the Merovingian kings of the Franks, considered the first French dynasty, who ruled what is now France from the...

 The cathedral of San Marco (Saint Mark's) in Venice, with its surrounding piazza, is decorated with art work taken from many other plac...

 As I have discussed earlier on this blog, self-publishing ("indie" publishing) is a complicated process.  The author has to not o...