Life in the Middle Ages

 Without easy access to African diamond mines, Asian pearl fisheries, and the like (if these even existed then, which they didn't), medi...

As I have discussed before, medieval peasants were not slaves.  By our standards they worked like dogs and died, worn out, at an age we wo...

Copper played a major role in the Middle Ages, both as part of the economy and as a marker of cultural exchange.  Copper of course had been ...