A Commonplace Book

Tyler Cowen has a review of the stupidly titled Liberal Fascism here. And yes, I know the phrase is from H. G. Wells , and it was stupid w...

The online database currently holds just under 90,000 service records. These are taken from muster rolls, housed in The National Archives (T...

A study based on the Iraq Family Health Survey (IFHS) and recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine sheds new light on viole...

The mid 15th c. lance as an administrative unit is well documented in the ordonnances of France and Burgundy. It included not only a fully ...

Steve Muhlberger has an interesting post here on the 1351 Ordinance of King John II of France, with a follow up . The ordinance is availabl...

Here are the sources I used to design the deed of arms scheduled for January 12, 2008. The basic rules for the effect of blows are a simulat...

Scoring Cheques were used in Tudor and Elizabethan jousts, tourneys and combats at the barriers. Although some faults would explicitly put y...

Form of Proclamation to be made by the King-at-Arms in the Presence Chamber, upon the Queen’s distribution of the Prizes to them, who had be...

Greenwood Publishing, my co-author and I have agreed to publish a revised and expanded edition of Daily Life in Chaucer’s England . Are ther...

The Challenge of the Lady May’s servants, to all Comers, to be performed at Greenwich, To Run 8 Courses. To shoot Standard Arrow or Flight. ...