It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a woman in possession of a love of history, must be in want of a blog.
Many of us in England like to think of ourselves as a fairly tolerant people, accepting of many traditions and ethnic groups (whether that is always true is another question). At any rate, when we hear the term 'anti-Semitism' we are most likely to think of Nazi Germany, or the Russian pogroms of the 19th …
Francia was the largest and most sophisticated kingdom in early medieval Europe, lasting from the 5th to 9th centuries. At it greatest extent, Francia was twice as large as modern France, stretching from the Pyrenees to Bavaria, from Rome to Saxony. It was huge and unwieldy. Given this, how was a Frankish king supposed to …
Although European society has changed hugely since the Middle Ages, some documents and objects from the time still have the power to speak straight down the centuries and demonstrate that despite radically altered worldviews, we do have things in common with our medieval ancestors. I was reminded of this when I came across a collection …
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