Today is the 470th anniversary of the formal reconciliation of England to the Catholic Church in 1554. This was effected when the Papal Lega...

Today is the 710th anniversary of the death at Fontainebleau of King Philip IV of France in 1314. This was but the last in a series of drama...

Before moving on from the blog Medieval Books, if only temporarily ,  and indeed with the additional and topical theme of purchasing presen...

By chance today I came across the excellent blog Medieval Books  which is the work of Erik Kwakkel in The Netherlands - but, don’t worry, th...

I came upon a video from The Aesthetic City  about the history, and more especially the destruction and then the recent, and continuing, reb...

Recently I linked to an online account of the current British Museum exhibition ‘Silk Roads’ and the way in which it illustrates the diffusi...

Christmas shopping looms and as we are being deluged with online promotions for ‘Black Friday’ ( a decidedly un-English concept in my opinio...

Gladiators are in the news at the moment. This is no doubt due to the release of Gladiator II which appears to have had a far from favourabl...