A Commonplace Book

I’d like to thank those companions of the Company of St. Michael who contributed to making our Vespers and Deed of Arms at Vannes at this P...

Joss Whedon's shy supervillain musical is here , for free until midnight July 20th, and downloadable from iTunes thereafter. Classic Whe...

If you are attending the medieval recreation at Pennsic , you may be interested in the following…… Saturday, August 2 Noon: Blue List, Battl...

Here . As does Got Medieval . Including, but fortunately not limited to, some women who aren't medieval at all, but merely perform a str...

What was 14th century money worth in today’s dollars? That’s tricky, because it depends on what you were buying. In the second half of the 1...

The following illustrates the levels of late 14th c. English society from plowman to duke. It generally follows the ranks used in the 1379 P...

A tremendously sweet Chaplinesque robot romantic comedy. One appreciation here .

If you like 14th c. robots (and who doesn’t?) Chaucer’s Squire’s Tale gives us not only a brass robot horse controlled by turning a pin in i...

Steve Muhlberger has an interesting post on 14th c. robots , particularly a mechanical angel that greeted Richard II for his coronation in L...

The clock is, if considered truly, An instrument very fair and very notable, And it is also agreeable and profitable; For night and day it t...