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A Wannabe "Crusader" in the Trump Cabinet
November 15, 2024
A troubling medievalism that calls for holy war against fellow Americans
Oathbreakers - Reviews and ... MAGIC!
October 22, 2024
Glowing Reviews about the book, in both real and imagined worlds
Discounted Preorder for Oathbreakers!
October 17, 2024
20% off our new book for subscribers!
Christopher Columbus was not Jewish
October 14, 2024
Junk science is also junk history
A Better (European) Middle Ages for Everyone
October 10, 2024
Getting the Band Back Together to Build Solidarity in Medieval Studies
NEW COVER REVEAL: OATHBREAKERS
October 6, 2024
A golden field, spattered in blood, that remade medieval Europe.
A Tang Dynasty Lion in Venice
September 20, 2024
Science stuff shows us an increasingly permeable medieval world
(Chappell) Roan d'Arc
September 13, 2024
Some thoughts on camp medievalism from Prof. Megan L. Cook.
Persian Silver in Early Medieval Scotland
September 3, 2024
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?
August 20, 2024
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
August 13, 2024
Remembering the woman who got us to rethink "feudalism"
D&D as History
August 5, 2024
Games have a (medieval) history
Judith, Jezebel, Justina
July 30, 2024
The longer medieval history of a slur, deployed once again
Proofs (and proofs?)
July 19, 2024
quick hits on our new book and a new discovery in Rome
Roland's Sword: Nostalgia, Tourism, Epic Poetry
July 15, 2024
A disappearing sword and some tall tales
Who we are! What we're reading!
July 10, 2024
A welcome for new subscribers.
Fontenoy
June 26, 2024
A monument and memory of a great medieval battle
"How did everyone know where to go for the battle in the Middle Ages?"
June 13, 2024
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
June 11, 2024
Oathbreakers is coming December 2024 and you can preorder now
1066 and 1944 ("Medieval" D-Day)
June 6, 2024
Using the Middle Ages to Remember a Modern War
Students and Faculty - Standing Together - Made the University
April 30, 2024
The long (medieval) history of the university begins with student protest - and support from their teachers
Silver Coins in a Permeable Medieval Europe
April 15, 2024
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
April 4, 2024
Medieval Religion Matters, and isn't something we can just shrug off
Murder on the Church Floor
March 26, 2024
A story about vengeance in the midst of a 9th-century civil war
Aquinas in Alabama
March 2, 2024
On using and misusing medieval theology to attack reproductive rights
The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar
February 13, 2024
Some thoughts on TV history and expertise (and the Templars)
I (do not) like big books, and I cannot lie
February 3, 2024
Reflecting back on The Bright Ages and giving people a "way in" to the past
University budgets are moral documents
January 23, 2024
Universities are creating a(n intentional) recursive doom loop for the Humanities
Questions not Constructs - How to replace bad ideas
January 10, 2024
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
December 23, 2023
Stay tuned but we're not gonna support Substack anymore
Oathbreakers (December 2024?)
December 18, 2023
Filed.
Two Elephants in Early Medieval Europe
December 8, 2023
The interwoven strands of a permeable Europe
The Apocalypse Approaches
December 2, 2023
Matt's new book "Between Prophecy and Apocalypse" is coming soon
Napoleon, Historians, and a Silly Movie
November 24, 2023
Ok, yeah, fiction is fiction but people get their history from it
The "Everyday" Middle Ages
November 1, 2023
People - actual people - lived in medieval Europe
Natalie Zemon Davis (1928-2023)
October 23, 2023
On shaping choices
The Medieval F Word
October 11, 2023
Everyone agrees feudalism is a lie, but
History Departments should care about more history
September 15, 2023
Oof
Bodies at the Bottom of a Well
September 11, 2023
Finding Violence in the European Middle Ages
OH MY GOD please stop comparing the US to Rome
September 6, 2023
Rome didn't "Fall"
Stanford Doesn't Seem to Understand How to College
September 4, 2023
The only interesting thing about their General Education Requirements
Hildegard Von Bingen Lingerie? (and AMA)
August 30, 2023
I mean what?
A Bit Too On the Nose
August 25, 2023
First comes art, then comes law
Killing in the Name (of Pepin)
August 20, 2023
An Empire that was Always Trying to Murder Itself (an excerpt from Oathbreakers)
There are indeed too many "renaissances"
July 26, 2023
Read The StopGap
Between Prophecy and Apocalypse
July 18, 2023
A Side Project Comes to (near) Fruition
Kingdom of Heaven
July 5, 2023
Listen to us talk about the film with some cool people
Quick Hits on a Permeable Medieval Europe
June 29, 2023
Reflecting on a "Crusader" Sword and Ivory in Early Medieval England
Please stop saying the Black Death ended feudalism and launched capitalism
June 19, 2023
That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.
You Gotta Do the Reading, Man
June 15, 2023
Why does the idea of the "Dark Ages" mean so much to econobros?
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