Life in the Middle Ages

 As I have discussed previously , knights in the twelfth century normally wore chain mail, made of iron rings riveted or welded together to ...

 The Bayeux Tapestry is one of our best sources of information about what the 1066 Norman Conquest looked like, that is, what kind of weapo...

 We think of armies as professional bodies, thoroughly trained, wearing uniforms, following discipline, able (in the US) to get their tuitio...

I have problems with movies supposedly set in the Middle Ages.  They get so many things wrong. For example, almost invariably a movie set ...