03 Mar Crusades, High Middle Ages, Medieval History Who Were The Knights of Malta? 16 August 2023 By Charles J Lockett The Knights of Malta have a thousand faces. They were a peaceful hospital in Medieval Jerusalem, healin... Continue reading
20 Feb Medieval History William Wallace: Braveheart or Brute? 16 August 2023 By Charles J Lockett Few figures in Scottish history loom as large as William Wallace. Apart from being an enormously consequential fi... Continue reading
03 Jan Early Middle Ages, Islamic Golden Age, Medieval History The Rise and Fall of the Abbasid Caliphate 16 August 2023 By Charles J Lockett Western, Anglocentric histories have too often lumped all of the vast complexity of the Middle East into the umbr... Continue reading
20 Dec Early Middle Ages, Medieval History When Did The Middle Ages Begin? 16 August 2023 By Charles J Lockett The question as to ‘when the Middle Ages began’ is a simple one on the surface. Everyone knows that the Middle Ag... Continue reading
06 Dec Crusades, High Middle Ages, Medieval History How Did The Islamic World Understand The Crusades? 16 August 2023 By Charles J Lockett Western accounts of the Crusades frequently see the Islamic Middle East as homogenous and barbaric, reproducing r... Continue reading
30 Nov Early Middle Ages, Medieval History, Vikings The Legend of the Valkyrie: Were Viking Shield-Maidens Real? 16 August 2023 By Charles J Lockett Ever since the rediscovery of Norse mythology and society in the 19th century, the Vikings have been an ever-pres... Continue reading
30 Nov Medieval History Industrial Pollution in the Middle Ages 16 August 2023 By Charles J Lockett We, quite rightly, imagine the Medieval era as a smelly, polluted and sickly time, when people had little underst... Continue reading
22 Nov Bladesmith Revisiting The Suontaka Sword: Unearthing Gender Identity in Medieval Europe 16 August 2023 By Charles J Lockett by Charles J. Lockett, Senior Content Contributor & Medieval Expert Continue reading
15 Nov Armors The Court of Emperor Maximilian I: The ‘Last Knight’ and his Gothic Armor 16 August 2023 By Charles J Lockett By Charles J. Lockett, Senior Content Contributor and Medieval Expert Continue reading
08 Nov Early Middle Ages, Medieval History, Vikings From Volga to Vinland: The Viking Colonisation of the Known World 16 August 2023 By Charles J Lockett By Charles J. Lockett, Senior Content Contributor and Medieval Expert Continue reading