Knighthood and learning

Please note: while I'm not exactly the Scarlet Pimpernel, Zorro, Superman, Spiderman or Batman, I do have a kind of dual identity thing....

  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...

  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...