Knighthood and learning

  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...

  As a follow-up to the previous post and to wrap up loose ends, lets answer two questions. Did people at the time think was going on and th...

  On 13 th January 888, the Carolingian emperor Charles the Fat breathed his last and died of a stroke. He had been the first Carolingian t...

Happy New Year! Its now 2023 and we're back for the next half of the early middle ages in ten objects. When we left off we had reached t...