Life in the Middle Ages

One often hears some version of, "If they can send a man to the moon, why can't they cure the common cold?"  Well, for starter...

 As I have discussed before , the term "fall of the Roman Empire" is a misnomer.  No one thought the Roman Empire had fallen until...

 Winter was a tough period for medieval peasants.  For one thing, they would have had a difficult time keeping warm .  We probably do not ap...

 A lot of readers like series.  They get to know and like the characters, they enjoy the world in which the characters function, and they ar...

 The ancient Mediterranean region had been a society of slavery.  Slaves then were usually people who had been captured in battle, or the ch...

Stonehenge is not medieval.  It was built somewhere around 2500 BC.  But medieval people of course knew it was there, it's hard to miss ...

So this is a milestone.  This marks the 500th post on my blog, "Life in the Middle Ages." I started the blog back in 2014, over ei...