Interesting Pretties

Today, I was doing some research into New Year's during different time periods and checking out some of the awesome calendars people ...

Over the past few days I've read quite a few articles about how people in medieval times spent their Christmas.  My big bugbear about t...

It's been a little while since my last posting... You know how it is -- December is a month for family and friends visiting and for pan...

Last week I went to the Jorvik Centre in York.  I'd been there before as a child, but as that was a very long time ago, I thought I...

So, in my inbox this morning I found a news story about the re-discovery and sale of a set of playing cards created in Augsburg, Germany, i...

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...