Knighthood and learning

 And so we're back again with another Carolingian imperial coronation, one which followed almost exactly 75 years after the one we looke...

  A  rather naturalistic depiction of Hercules from the Leiden Aratea (c.816 - 840), a Carolingian copy of an astronomical treatise by the ...

Happy International Women's Day After my wild excursion into the history of post-Roman Britain, that ended up becoming a monster post th...

 If you were asked to name three great medieval poets (European, 450 - 1500), who would you name? If  you're just a well-educated, well-...