Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Pardoner’s Tale: New Edition Now Available The Pardoner’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer is probably one of the most accessible works of Middle English for modern readers – it features a neat moral parable, bawdy language and a barbed satire of the avarice prevalent in some elements of the medieval Church. The Pardoner’s Tale [...]

Fast Days in the Middle Ages Meat was forbidden by Church law on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays and also during Lent, when the consumption of eggs was also forbidden. (Friday is commonly known to be a day on which fish was eaten, but Wednesday and Saturday are a bit more obscure. Find out a bit [...]

A quick novel update here for Hell has its Demons When I write “Time to reflect” I mean in the novel rather than here on this blog. Just started a new chapter where Roger is about to go off and start his investigations. His first witness is the Precentor. In the Abbey’s he’s basically the [...]

Lovely church scene and good selections of medieval art that give a feel of what Christmas may have been like in the Middle Ages. Have a great Christmas!

The Middle Ages are known as a time of greater religious belief and spirituality than our modern times, at least in terms of Western Christianity. The massive influence of the Church on politics and society and thought indicates that religion was at this time stronger than it is today. For a writer of historical fiction [...]