04 Jul Late Middle Ages, Medieval History When Did The Middle Ages End? 22 June 2022 By Charles J Lockett 0 comments When Charlemagne was crowned Emperor of the Romans in 800 CE by Pope Leo III, not a lot changed. Nobody went arou...Continue reading
22 Jun Late Middle Ages, Medieval History The Hussite Wars, Part 1: You Can’t Burn Ideas At The Stake 22 June 2022 By Charles J Lockett 0 comments Smoke rises from Domažlice. The crosses of St. George, patron saint...Continue reading
30 May Early Middle Ages, Medieval History, Uncategorised, Vikings The Last Viking Invasion: Battle at Stamford Bridge 21 June 2022 By Charles J Lockett 0 comments The makeshift camp rang with the sounds of merrymaking, as the burgeoning heat of the late-summer morning began t...Continue reading
16 May Early Middle Ages, Medieval History, Uncategorised Were the ‘Barbarians’ the True Successors of Rome? 28 April 2022 By Charles J Lockett 0 comments The 'barbarian invasions' shook Roman society to its core, changing the dynamics which governed Roman society, an...Continue reading
02 May High Middle Ages, Medieval History, Uncategorised The Investiture Controversy: When Pope and Emperor Went To War 6 May 2022 By Charles J Lockett 0 comments It was the second day that the King had knelt in the snow.Continue reading
07 Apr High Middle Ages, Medieval History The Kyivan Rus’: Viking Outpost or Slavic State? 8 April 2022 By Charles J Lockett 0 comments All states have their founding myths. France has the legendary King Charlemagne’s crowning as Em...Continue reading
03 Mar Crusades, High Middle Ages, Medieval History, Uncategorised Who Were The Knights of Malta? 3 March 2022 By Charles J Lockett 0 comments The Knights of Malta have a thousand faces. They were a peaceful hospital in Medieval Jerusalem, healin...Continue reading
03 Jan Early Middle Ages, Islamic Golden Age, Medieval History The Rise and Fall of the Abbasid Caliphate 29 December 2021 By Charles J Lockett 0 comments Western, Anglocentric histories have too often lumped all of the vast complexity of the Middle East into the umbr...Continue reading
20 Dec Early Middle Ages, Medieval History, Uncategorised When Did The Middle Ages Begin? 29 December 2021 By Charles J Lockett 0 comments The question as to ‘when the Middle Ages began’ is a simple one on the surface. Everyone knows that the Middle Ag...Continue reading
06 Dec Crusades, High Middle Ages, Medieval History How Did The Islamic World Understand The Crusades? 29 December 2021 By Charles J Lockett 0 comments Western accounts of the Crusades frequently see the Islamic Middle East as homogenous and barbaric, reproducing r...Continue reading