From Jean Froissart’s Chronicles. THE BATTLE OF POITIERS OF THE GREAT HOST THAT THE FRENCH KING BROUGHT TO THE BATTLE OF POITIERS After the taking of the castle of Romorantin and of them that were therein, the prince then and his company rode as they did before, destroying the country, approaching to Anjou and to [...]

From French Mediaeval Romances, which is also available as an eBook Select Bibliography Bloch, R. Howard. The Anonymous Marie de France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Burgess, Glyn S., and Keith Busby. The Lais of Marie de France. London: Penguin, 1999. Stein, Robert M., and Sandra Pierson Prior. Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of [...]

Elizabeth of York (Queenship and Power) by Arlene Naylor Okerlund In my recent posts about the best and worst Medieval people I have been remiss in not mentioning any women. So to balance that out only slightly, here’s some information about an upcoming biography of a powerful Medieval lady: Elizabeth of York, mother of Henry [...]

Who gives the Middle Ages a bad name? They were bad, but without them history wouldn’t have been so interesting. Again like my article on the Top 5 Medieval People, this list is completely arbitrary. The villains of the medieval age are in my opinion: Innocent IV - the implacable enemy of Frederick II. Innocent’s political [...]

Some of the top stories and most interesting blog posts on Medieval History and Medieval Historical Fiction in the past week or so: Medieval Bookworm reviews Bernard Cornwell’s Death of Kings Medievalists.net discusses evidence for Scottish Medieval Football – although is this any real surprise? Football was around for a long time in the Middle [...]

Random post of the week – who are my top 5 people from the Middle Ages – real historical medieval people, not characters from any of my stories that is! Frederick II Hohenstaufen – not quite the Renaissance prince that earlier historians such as Kantowicz would like to think, but even so still quite amazing [...]

I just added another page to this site’s section on England in 1376 – this time looking at the Key Officials of King Edward III’s household. At present I don’t have much information on these individuals – indeed I suspect that for some of them there won’t be much information available, but they may well [...]

The historical PC game experts Paradox Interactive seem to have a new game featuring the War of the Roses coming out. The video below was uploaded in August, but there doesn’t seem to be any news on a release date. If it’s historically accurate, which some of Paradox’s games are, then it could be very [...]

Zio the Hero by Marc Grimston I came across this medieval adventure story for children over Twitter. It’s by a UK author and seems to be doing very well. I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but I’m planning to soon. I would recommend that you take a look at the video – [...]

Chivalry in Medieval England by Nigel Saul Hardcover: 440 pages Publisher: Harvard University Press (15 Oct 2011) Language English ISBN-10: 0674063686 ISBN-13: 978-0674063686 I think this is a new title! It’s not always easy to tell after all – for instance there seems to be another title by Nigel Saul The Age of Chivalry, but this is only 144 pages, [...]