Life in the Middle Ages

 I've got a new fantasy novel!  It's called "The Ill-Born Prince" (that's ILL-BORN, not three-times born or anything l...

Europe doesn't have all the kinds of vultures and condors found in the New World, no turkey vultures or black vultures, no California co...

 The fantasy genre is full of women.  And no, I don't mean men fantasizing about some top-heavy lass pressing her unclad body against th...

As I earlier posted , medieval Spain is much less studied than the rest of medieval Europe.  Part of the issue is the language barrier.  One...

 The "Nicene Creed" is trending today, so I thought I'd blog about it, given its importance for medieval Christianity. The wor...

 People in the Middle Ages totally believed in the rule of law.  They were not always sure what the law was, and often they seemed to be mak...

 A lot of medieval manuscripts survive only in fragments.  There is indeed a whole field within medieval studies, fragmentology, dedicated t...