Life in the Middle Ages

 I have blogged before about medievalism, the desire to re-create some aspects of medieval society and culture in the modern world.  A lot o...

Gunpowder, as I have noted before , came into use in Europe in the fourteenth century, radically changing the face of medieval warfare when ...

 Peasants keep appearing in this blog, for the excellent reason that they were by far the bulk of the medieval population, maybe 90%.  Toda...

 Medieval Europe was violent, which should not be surprising, given that pretty much all societies are if a lot of people live close to each...

 Medieval people ate a largely vegetarian diet.  Unlike modern vegetarians in the West, who usually choose vegetarianism primarily because t...

 It has been suggested that everyone with European ancestry is descended from Charlemagne. You remember Charlemagne .  He was crowned Roman ...

 The wealthy in the Middle Ages liked luxury goods—as of course do the wealthy in the modern world.  Something unusual, rare, exotic, and go...