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)
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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
