A Commonplace Book

Bucklers were often used by unarmored or partially armored medieval combatants. Were they ever used by fully armored fighters? It seems that...

That’s how Google’s robotic translator renders this blog into French, which seems a little harsh. But wait, there’s more: Les hordes de muta...

But what did Henry really say to the troops? M.H. Hansen argues convincingly : What King Henry probably did is what many generals have ...

Froissart, one of my favorite 14th century authors, had an attitude more like a docudrama writer than a modern historian. He strove to creat...

Few people are aware that Islamofascism was not simply a sloppy epithet, but an actual political movement. An obscure offshoot of the Leban...

The enormous cemetery at Najaf is a favored burial site for Shiites from all over Iraq, and provides macabre evidence for the state of affai...

Chapter 49 Scarcely had she so determined it, when the figure of a man on horseback drew her eyes to the window. He stopt at their gate. ...

On October 13, 1307 the Knights Templar experienced a hostile takeover.

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