Life in the Middle Ages

 Courtship, as the name implies, is something that is done at court.  We are talking here not about a law court but about a king's or gr...

On a hillside above the English village of Cerne Abbas, in Dorset, there is an outline of a gigantic figure.  He is naked and carrying a hug...

 We tend to think of medieval villages as small and compact, stone houses close together, with a castle and a church at the center. Now in f...

 We tend to think of families as all getting along and supporting and protecting each other.  For most families in the Middle Ages, that was...

 Old French, like the medieval versions of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian, plus other variants (like Provençal), derived ultimat...

 Our word "romance" goes back to medieval French, but its meaning was somewhat different then compared to how we use the term now....

 Because the US is a melting pot, an awful lot of us have a distinct ethnic identity related to our ancestry.  African-Americans of course r...