A Commonplace Book

">Purses in Pieces: Archaeological Finds of Late Medieval and 16th Century Leather Purses, Pouches, Bags and Cases in the Netherland...

Somehow, this reminded me of Maturin and the goat...

Shame-faced Brits are increasingly confusing fact and fiction when it comes to historical knowledge – that's the verdict of a compelling...

Knowledge of the Past: the Knight of the Tour Landry Earlier, I gave you a sample of the cultural literacy of two medieval gentlemen. One of...

Knowledge of the Past for Chaucer and the Knight of the Tour Landry What follows is a list is characters from the past, historical, mythical...

The 15th century tournament sword described by King Rene had a blunt point and edge. There is a tendency to assume that this was equally tru...

Liberalism and conservatism in America today don’t so much define coherent philosophies as temporary coalitions of ideas and interest groups...

Let me start by saying that finding out what is actually happening in Iraq is very difficult, and that actually gathering that information r...

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...