Last February I wrote two pieces based on a methodology trying to calculate how much is lost to us of medieval literature. They can be seen ...

Live Science  recently had a report about the discovery of a coin in Hungary that had been minted in the name of the Norwegian King Harald H...

Another beautifully illustrated post on the British Library Medieval manuscripts blog  is about the BL illuminated manuscript of the Law Cod...

The British Library’s Medieval manuscripts blog  is always well worth looking at. A recent post on it looked at a unique item in the BL coll...

Probably unwisely, but nonetheless, I stayed up to watch the results in the Wakefield and the Tiverton & Honiton by elections which were...

Today is the anticipated Feast of the Natuvity of St John the Baptist - as this year the Sacred Heart falls tomorrow on the usual day assign...

The Independent  reports on a project which claims to have identified the facts that Domesday Book was written by a Normandy born scribe who...

I have posted twice in recent days about the excavation of an important early Anglo Saxon cemetary at Wendover in Buckinghamshire. Now there...