It occurred to me that it might be a good idea to share the patristic readings for Palm Sunday in the traditional form of Mattins. They are ...

The Conversation  recently had an article which points to a description by the chroncler Gervase of Canterbury, who was writing in the last ...

I recently wrote in  The quest for Ravenser Odd   about attempts to discover the remains of the medieval town of Ravenser Odd at the tip of ...

A couple of months back in  Reassessing the impact of the Black Death   and in  More about the impact of the Black Death   I wrote about  re...

There is an interesting and lengthy article in the latest issue of the Smithsonian Magazine  which sets out recent archaeological research i...

Further to my post about  The fate of medieval Greenland   I now see that Live Science  also has an article about the new theory that drough...

Gresham College, now based in Holborn in London  - and for the history of which see  Gresham College  -  originated with the beneficence of ...

Today is the centenary of the death at the age of 34 from pneumonia in his enforced exile on the island of Madeira of Bl. Karl of Austria - ...