A Volcano Caused the Black Death?
Plague on a Boat
Revisiting "Oathbreakers" 1 Year Later
Looking back and announcing a new event!
Carolingian Biodiversity
How Interdisciplinary Can and Should Work
Coin Flows and the "End" of the Ancient World
Revisiting Modern Assumptions about the Past
Alfred the Great Slept Here (as a baby)
A few weeks ago, we (Matt and David!) traveled to Wantage, a small but thriving town not far Oxford, to take part in their annual literary festival. We’ve...
A New Podcast - "American Medieval"
Matt did a thing. Oh no.
Medieval Halloween
Some reminders about medieval cats, demons, and devils for spooky season
Revisiting the Medieval "F-Word" (Feudalism)
How Every State Teaches (or doesn't) about Feudalism
Book Review: "Bloody Crown" by Michael Livingston
A New History of the Hundred (or maybe Two Hundred) Years War
Eat the Middle Ages
Our friends at the Getty (in LA) have something delicious in store
Housekeeping: An Update and Plan for the Newsletter
Medieval! In the Inbox
The Public Scholar - A Practical Guide
DAVID HAS A NEW BOOK WITH A COVER AND EVERYTHING! YOU CAN PREORDER IT TODAY! The blurb: Rather than debating whether academics should write for the public,...
Online Course Dispelling the "Dark Ages"
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Travel in the Middle Ages
A Conversation with Larisa Grollemond about a New Exhibition at the Getty Museum (LA)
Africans in Early Medieval England
A New Archeological Discovery Provides More Evidence for a Permeable Medieval Europe
Women Yearn for the Medieval
Some thoughts on medieval escapism (laudatory)
The Devil in History
A new collection of essays confronts one of the world's wiliest adversaries
New Online Course: The Myth of the Dark Ages
Learn how to see the past a bit better - a more real medieval world
BUY SOME BOOKS! (anti-Prime Sale)
Support independent bookstores and get you some reading material
King Arthur Refuses to Stay in the Middle Ages
The Seductions of Coevalness