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 [...]

I blogged about the fantastic Pase Domesday project yesterday, which is an online reference tool to access data about people and places from the Domesday Book. What I should have mentioned as well is what seems to not be available from Pase Domesday, which is all the detail of what customs and fees are owed [...]

We seem to have a Norman theme today! You can now search the Domesday Book online thanks to the PASE Domesday project run by King’s College, London and the University of Cambridge. Here’s a sample output for the town where I grew up (click on the image to see it in detail): You can also [...]