What lies in wait within the Vatican Secret Archives? All the medieval receipts for all the dirty Papal deeds you could ever need! Here's how to find them...
Fantasy vs. Reality
Separating fact from fiction in our understanding of the medieval world.
Game of Thrones' dark and cynical interpretation of the Middle Ages is a huge problem. The creators argue that it's a more-realistic version of the Middle Ages, but just because it's edgy, doesn't mean it's real.
The military flail may have, in fact, existed. But not at all in the places that we think they did...
What if I were to tell you that a weapon that you've seen in books, movies and museums wasn't actually real?
A look inside the inner workings of a medieval grand strategy game by one of the academics who worked on it. Guest post on Crusader Kings II by Robert Houghton.