Life in the Middle Ages

Any trip to the drug store will demonstrate that people today spend a lot of effort on their hair.  Shampoos, conditioners, straighteners, p...

In an earlier post I noted that the well-educated in the Middle Ages were usually the most intensely religious.  Ordinary people would also...

As I have discussed elsewhere in the context of chivalry , how medieval knights and nobles would have liked to imagine themselves was presen...

Britain was a part of the Roman Empire from the first century BC on.  Not only was the native Celtic population conquered by the Roman legio...

By modern standards, everyone was dirt poor in the Middle Ages.  Even the wealthiest lacked the "things" that everyone but the tru...

To the modern person in the West, winter is both a difficult time and a delight.  Snow can be beautiful as it coats the trees. (This i...

In the West in the twenty-first century, we take bathing for granted.  You step into the shower, turn a knob, and hot water appears.  There...