Band of Wild Petticoats

Things, and the preservation of things, was as important in the Middle Ages as today. Image from a 15th-century edition of Boccaccio's...

As will happen while obsessively pursuing details about the life and posthumous fame of a single historical figure, a moment of pur...

The blooming Sorbus domestica Over the weekend, I indulged in some well-deserved pleasure reading. A new book, The King in the North (20...

Isabel de Aragão, Queen of Portugal, arrives at Santiago de Compostela after completing a long pilgrimage on foot. Painting by Antonio d...

This morning I brought my camera with me to the university campus to document the gorgeous display of autumn foliage, to which I am daily...

A good place to imagine a medieval world This is the chair in which I read a great deal about the denizens of medieval Europe and imagin...

I used to believe that there were only two kinds of places one could end up: a place near the sea or a place in the mountains. For years I ...