Life in the Middle Ages

The Middle Ages is often characterized as an Age of Faith.  It's not entirely clear what this term is supposed to mean, but the assumpti...

I've got a new audio book! It's the audio version of the first of the Yurt novellas and is entitled "The Lost Girls and t...

There's an iconic scene in the '60s movie "The Graduate," where a family friend is giving career advice to a new college g...

High school students are often frustrated when their history teacher makes them memorize boring names and dates.  College students are often...

Recently I posted about medieval Scotland .  Today I would like to continue the Scottish motif by discussing some Scottish castles. On the...

Europe was Christianized starting in the second century, and by the fourth century Christianity was the official religion of the Roman Empir...

Medieval Scotland doesn't get a lot of scholarly attention, outside the universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and St. Andrews.  For that m...