Medieval Scribbles

And so we have reached the end of another year. Highlights from the past twelve months are being compiled everywhere you look and there is a...

British Library, Cotton MS Nero A.x, article 3, ff. 94v95. Christmas time. The king is home at Camelot Among his many lords, all s...

Yet again finding inspiration on my regular walks – a house that was once crammed full of personal items is now sadly deserted, with only th...

The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed in recent months the ‘patch count’ that has been slowly increasing in the side bar. Back in April,...

A bit of bloodthirsty cannibalism and a tree-eating horse...  Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora , Annal for 1243. Cambridge, Co...

This set up for a historical romantic-comedy was written some time ago on a whim before realising that I can write neither romance nor comed...

This time next year I shall have celebrated another birthday and will have reached the quarter of a century mark. For something that sounds ...