Knighthood and learning

One version of Carolingian Christianity. The obverse side of Harrach ditpych, made as an ivory book cover for a gospel book by the so-called...

In this early tenth century manuscript illustration, thought to be based on a lost ninth century original, Charlemagne has a conversation wi...

  Happy Valentine’s Day everyone. Now I’m not going to write a post about the history of Valentine’s Day itself, though I’d like to say that...

  William the Conqueror and Henry IV of Germany Part 1 – why compare them? In this series of posts, I’m going to do something really quite...