Interesting Pretties

By the name of it, you'd think it was another falconry manuscript like De Arte Venandi Cum Avibus , but it's actually a two volume ...

In my random googlings today, I came across a manuscript with the weirdest marginalia.  It's the Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa or...

So two days after Thanksgiving.  I was going to do an article about it, but then steak and beer happened, because what's more American...

I was doing more research into Chaucer's works when I stumbled upon Boccaccio.  Boccaccio wrote the Decameron , published around 1353 ,...

When you think of Henry VIII, you think of a rather large ginger man who ate too much and always got his way.  The church disagreed with hi...

I normally keep to writing about history stuff, but this is a pretty useful tip, so I thought I'd share it.  Last week I found this ...

Yeah, I know.  It's the day after Guy Fawkes night, but I have a good reason for posting late:  We were watching stuff explode. Whe...