I think about Crusades a lot because that’s my job. I also think about them a lot because, well, there were a lot of them – which is pretty wild when you consider they didn’t exist as a pheno…| Going Medieval
History is the story of what resulted from the acts of great men, directly and indirectly, buffeted by fortune. Thus, in the Middle Ages, as in every age, what the common people did in their daily lives never drove history. Nonetheless, their lives can be of interest, both to specialists and generalists. Moreover, studying the| The Worthy House • Towards A Politics of Future Past -
The Order of St John, otherwise known as the Knights Hospitaller, was a chivalric and militaristic, order originating in Jerusalem before the first Crusade in 1099. Members pledged an oath to provide hospitality for the sick, injured and poor, while also training as knights for warfare dedicated in their defence of Christianity. Not too long...| Museum of the Order of St John
Have you been visited by Titivillus, the demon of typographical errors?| The Scholarly Kitchen
I walk on. In that excited city, there is a group of people queuing to get near the firework display. The post Feeding the Hungry by Emma Rose Barber appeared first on Little Toller Books.| Little Toller Books
Being a medieval historian is weird, in general. I spend a lot of time reading and thinking about a thousand years of history which is largely ignored. When I do manage to then attempt to share my …| Going Medieval
In the classic 1970s Irish Republican Army anthem “My Little Armalite,” the lyrics include “Well the army came to visit me, ’twas in the early hours / With Saladins and Saracens and Ferret armored cars.” One wonders why would the British, back when there still was an England, name their military equipment after the Kurdish […] The post The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin (Jonathan Phillips) first appeared on The Worthy House • Towards A Politics of Future Past.| The Worthy House • Towards A Politics of Future Past
I was lucky enough to get to see a production of Christopher Marlow’s (1564 – 1593) Edward II at the Royal Shakespeare Company this week, and as with any good piece of art I come across, I have bee…| Going Medieval
there are a lot of historical time periods that i find myself fixating on. I basically got into... uh... being a history dork via , which I still would recom...| videodante
The other day I had the pleasure of ducking into the Temple Church here in London. I’ve been by a number of times, but never actually in, and so I was looking forward to being a little history nerd…| Going Medieval
I’ve been thinking a lot about ghosts lately. No, not because it’s October. That sort of seasonal interest in ghosts is for amateurs, and your girlie is thinking about ghosts 24/7 365. I don’t get …| Going Medieval
I’m not really on twitter that much anymore because of all the generalised unpleasantness. I mostly go to let people know I have done something that they can go read, watch, or listen to, and then …| Going Medieval
So over at my cute little podcast We’re Not So Different we are currently running a book club for patrons. As a part of this I am rereading the classic The Name of the Rose, which has made me reali…| Going Medieval
I have had one of those weeks where people keep showing me things in order to make me mad. And because I am a very simple person that has worked. If you show me some fake medieval nonsense, I am go…| Going Medieval
It will come as a surprise to exactly zero regular readers that I have been contemplating the concept of obscenity lately. What may come as a surprise to you, however, is exactly why I have been th…| Going Medieval
Last week, I was having a nice little chat on BlueSky, my go-to site for chatting shit and avoiding work now that twitter is unusable, with some very nice people, and I was asked a thoughtful quest…| Going Medieval
Sigh. Sorry to those of you still reading this page – it’s been ages I know. Over the Christmas period I’ve had some time to come back and revisit a documentary on the werewolf th…| The BS Historian
The almost-certainly-fake Arthur grave cross supposedly found in 1191 in Glastonbury. From Camden’s ‘Britannia’ (1607, p.166) You can’t beat King Arthur for some good BS history (…| The BS Historian
The flag version of the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces cap badge (Wikimedia) In 2019 Ukraine’s Special Operations Command officially adopted a new unit patch featuring the head of a wolf with …| The BS Historian
The Guardian have released this article about a document that’s supposedly been identified as Geoffrey Chaucer’s own handwriting. For one thing, that remains to be seen – the scholar making t…| The BS Historian