Life in the Middle Ages

 It's the day after Christmas, Saint Stephen's day, so I will blog about Saint Stephen. Most people probably only think about him in...

 At the same time as TV shows and magazines are telling us to simplify, to get away from commercialization and overspending and discover ...

 We think of queens as wives of kings, as of course they were, but they also were rulers in their own right.  After all, Elizabeth II has be...

 In the modern West it has become common to have what used to be called old folks' homes (not to be confused with the Stephen Foster son...

 We tend to think of the medieval church as monolithic, as a single, unified entity.  In fact, there were numerous different entities within...

 It's November, a month that seems stuck somewhere between fall and winter, can't figure out which one it wants to be.  It's a m...

 Mills were the equivalent of medieval factories, places where machinery provided a lot of the hard work that made it possible for people to...