Life in the Middle Ages

 One of the challenges for any author is editing.  Traditional publishing houses have full-time editing staffs, but the author had better ed...

 Childbirth is always a perilous time.  Even with modern medicine, it is among the leading causes of death for younger women (especially tho...

 Although for most of the time here I blog about medieval social history, occasionally I like to discuss my fantasy novels, which are inform...

 As I have discussed earlier, when talking about medieval soap , medieval people wanted to be clean .  The wanted their persons, their cloth...

 When it comes to medieval studies, the big three are Britain (mostly England), France, and Germany.  Medieval France and England were both ...

 The Black Sea has been in the news a lot lately, because it's that major body of water past the eastern end of the Mediterranean that h...

 We live in a globalized world, where our household goods and even much of our food may come from North and South America, Europe, or Asia (...