Knighthood and learning

 Last time we were with Guibert, he was complaining about his miserable days being homeschooled in Latin from his private tutor Solomon, who...

  I can’t tell you how great it feels to be writing a blogpost now. The last two weeks have been absolutely hectic for me with the PGCE and ...

Smaragdus of Saint Mihiel (770 – 840), a Visigothic immigrant from Spain (like Theodulf of Orleans , f riend of this blog , whom he knew per...

  As a kind of natural follow-up to my series about Charles Martel, lets talk about his son, Pippin the Short. Immediately after Charles Mar...

For the first post on the many amazing things I saw on my continental tour from 3 May to 17 June, I shall be a little unconventional and sta...