Life in the Middle Ages

 In April of 2019, the roof beams of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris caught fire.  The flame roared through the 900 year old oak beams that s...

 It's been two years today since Notre Dame burned .  How can a stone building burn? you ask.  Well, limestone (such as the church is ma...

In an earlier post on medieval cathedrals, I noted that building a cathedral--or for that matter a castle--was not just a matter of getting...