The 1481 Amerbach Bible. Photo courtesy of the University of Leicester. As part of yesterday's ceremonies, while Compline was sun...

Earlier today, the first round of official festivities for King Richard III commenced. For the past two years since their recovery unde...

Today in history, in 1413, King Henry IV of England died from an unknown affliction, aged 46. Unlike most of his fellow kings who are bur...

Some things never change.  The image of a wife beating her husband with a cudgel is a common sight in medieval English cathedrals...

As longtime followers of this blog know, I try to repost anything of relevance to the great Gothic revival architect, Augustus Welby ...

    "And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play t...

For the first time, the Modern Medievalist daintily dips his toes into the shark-infested waters of our so-called culture wars and its...