Life in the Middle Ages

One periodically sees the suggestion that medieval parents did not love their children.  This ridiculous and patently false notion is based ...

In earlier posts (available here and here ), I discussed why popes were not automatically "in charge," taking the story up to the...

I am often asked how I ended up writing both history and fiction.  There's no easy answer.  I've been writing stories since before I...

If you go looking for misogyny, that is hatred of women, in the Middle Ages, you will certainly find it. But the same could be said of the t...

There is a popular idea that women in the Middle Ages were marginalized, forced to be subservient, under the thumb of the men.  Nothing coul...

If you've spent any time around a college campus, you've doubtless seen the T-shirt, "Beer, it's not just for breakfast any...

Universities were a medieval invention.  There was nothing like them in the ancient world.  But in many ways what we think of as defining a ...