Life in the Middle Ages

 If you've been reading this blog for a while, you'll know that it is simply false that medieval society was tidily divided into thr...

 Like modern people, medieval people worried about forgetting important things.  Such important things included wars, the deaths of kings, d...

 In the Puisaye region of French Burgundy, they are building a thirteenth-century castle. Its name is Guédelon.  The project began in 1995 a...

 Modern England (and for that matter the whole UK), unlike most of the rest of Europe, considers itself to be a continuation of medieval Eng...

 There are two main stereotypes of medieval knights , one that they were crude and violent, the other that they were refined, with a delicat...

 Iceland is the second biggest island in Europe, smaller than Great Britain (home to England, Wales, and Scotland) but bigger than Ireland. ...

 It might seem self-evident that people should wear white gloves in the archives, to protect the documents from the touch of human fingers. ...