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The Rise and Fall of the Abbasid Caliphate
Western, Anglocentric histories have too often lumped all of the vast complexity of the Middle East into the umbr...
03 Jan
Medieval Blog
20 Dec
When Did The Middle Ages Begin?
The question as to ‘when the Middle Ages began’ is a simple one on the surface. Everyone knows that the Middle Ag...
06 Dec
How Did The Islamic World Understand The Crusades?
Western accounts of the Crusades frequently see the Islamic Middle East as homogenous and barbaric, reproducing r...
30 Nov
The Legend of the Valkyrie: Were Viking Shield-Maidens Real?
Ever since the rediscovery of Norse mythology and society in the 19th century, the Vikings have been an ever-pres...
30 Nov
Industrial Pollution in the Middle Ages
We, quite rightly, imagine the Medieval era as a smelly, polluted and sickly time, when people had little underst...
22 Nov
Revisiting The Suontaka Sword: Unearthing Gender Identity in Medieval Europe
by Charles J. Lockett, Senior Content Contributor & Medieval Expert
15 Nov
The Court of Emperor Maximilian I: The ‘Last Knight’ and his Gothic Armor
By Charles J. Lockett, Senior Content Contributor and Medieval Expert
08 Nov
From Volga to Vinland: The Viking Colonisation of the Known World
By Charles J. Lockett, Senior Content Contributor and Medieval Expert
25 Oct
Gregory and the Heptarchs: The Christianization of Anglo-Saxon England
From the start of the 7th century, the pagan kings of Anglo-Saxon England began a gradual, contested and frequent...
18 Oct
From Bloomery to Blast Furnace: The Late Medieval Steel Revolution
A medieval blacksmith, including a woman artisan, from 'The Romance of Alexander', c. 1340 CE. (via the Bodleian ...
