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Christopher Columbus was not Jewish
Junk science is also junk history
A Better (European) Middle Ages for Everyone
Getting the Band Back Together to Build Solidarity in Medieval Studies
NEW COVER REVEAL: OATHBREAKERS
A golden field, spattered in blood, that remade medieval Europe.
A Tang Dynasty Lion in Venice
Science stuff shows us an increasingly permeable medieval world
(Chappell) Roan d'Arc
Some thoughts on camp medievalism from Prof. Megan L. Cook.
Persian Silver in Early Medieval Scotland
A precious silver object from the Early Middle Ages reveals its origins, halfway around the world.
The "Great Tradition of the West" is Burning Books?
Tyrants take away your books "for your own good." That's what's happening at New College Florida right now.
In Memoriam: Elizabeth (Peggy) A.R. Brown
Remembering the woman who got us to rethink "feudalism"
D&D as History
Games have a (medieval) history
Judith, Jezebel, Justina
The longer medieval history of a slur, deployed once again
Proofs (and proofs?)
quick hits on our new book and a new discovery in Rome
Roland's Sword: Nostalgia, Tourism, Epic Poetry
A disappearing sword and some tall tales
Who we are! What we're reading!
A welcome for new subscribers.
Fontenoy
A monument and memory of a great medieval battle
"How did everyone know where to go for the battle in the Middle Ages?"
A really good question from a viral Tiktok that's kind of answered in our new book
Book Cover Reveal - Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers that Shattered an Empire & Made Medieval Europe
Oathbreakers is coming December 2024 and you can preorder now
1066 and 1944 ("Medieval" D-Day)
Using the Middle Ages to Remember a Modern War
Students and Faculty - Standing Together - Made the University
The long (medieval) history of the university begins with student protest - and support from their teachers
Silver Coins in a Permeable Medieval Europe
A new discovery by historians show how far things could travel (and how normal it was for them to travel), even during the European Middle Ages
"Not a Christian motive" - Remembering the Murder of Medieval Spanish Jews
Medieval Religion Matters, and isn't something we can just shrug off
Murder on the Church Floor
A story about vengeance in the midst of a 9th-century civil war
Aquinas in Alabama
On using and misusing medieval theology to attack reproductive rights
The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar
Some thoughts on TV history and expertise (and the Templars)
I (do not) like big books, and I cannot lie
Reflecting back on The Bright Ages and giving people a "way in" to the past
University budgets are moral documents
Universities are creating a(n intentional) recursive doom loop for the Humanities
Questions not Constructs - How to replace bad ideas
Fifty years ago, the medieval historian Elizabeth Brown published an article arguing that feudalism was not a useful concept. She demonstrates that few...
Happy Holidays and Site Migration Plans
Stay tuned but we're not gonna support Substack anymore
Oathbreakers (December 2024?)
Filed.
Two Elephants in Early Medieval Europe
The interwoven strands of a permeable Europe
The Apocalypse Approaches
Matt's new book "Between Prophecy and Apocalypse" is coming soon
Napoleon, Historians, and a Silly Movie
Ok, yeah, fiction is fiction but people get their history from it
The "Everyday" Middle Ages
People - actual people - lived in medieval Europe
Natalie Zemon Davis (1928-2023)
On shaping choices
The Medieval F Word
Everyone agrees feudalism is a lie, but
History Departments should care about more history
Oof
Bodies at the Bottom of a Well
Finding Violence in the European Middle Ages
OH MY GOD please stop comparing the US to Rome
Rome didn't "Fall"
Stanford Doesn't Seem to Understand How to College
The only interesting thing about their General Education Requirements
Hildegard Von Bingen Lingerie? (and AMA)
I mean what?
A Bit Too On the Nose
First comes art, then comes law
Killing in the Name (of Pepin)
An Empire that was Always Trying to Murder Itself (an excerpt from Oathbreakers)
There are indeed too many "renaissances"
Read The StopGap
Between Prophecy and Apocalypse
A Side Project Comes to (near) Fruition
Kingdom of Heaven
Listen to us talk about the film with some cool people
Quick Hits on a Permeable Medieval Europe
Reflecting on a "Crusader" Sword and Ivory in Early Medieval England
Please stop saying the Black Death ended feudalism and launched capitalism
That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.
You Gotta Do the Reading, Man
Why does the idea of the "Dark Ages" mean so much to econobros?
A Sunken City and A Human Age
The recent viral story about the discovery of a sunken medieval city is an opportunity to tell a better story