In Chivalry & Sorcery 5th Edition we referred briefly to medieval attitudes towards homosexuality and to an active gay scene in the 11th and 12th centuries. This article explores homosexuality
Category: History
One aspect of the diversity of medieval life we did not address in Chivalry & Sorcery 5th Edition concerns genderqueer people. This article is intended to correct that omission, in
Common factoids (things that look like facts but aren’t) about the Middle Ages are that people of colour didn’t exist in medieval Europe, that women didn’t fight (or do much
Stuart Mendelsohn runs a superb blog examining the medieval documents of Salford Hundred in Lancashire – an area he rightly points out is among the least explored in England, at least
Mick Aston died yesterday, June 24, 2013. I never met him, never spoke to or corresponded with him. Those who knew, worked or studied with him will have their own
 Note: this is a minor reworking of a review I originally published on rpg.net in August 2003. “Nothing is forgotten. Nothing’s ever forgotten.” Robin of Sherwood is, for many people
No, not for the blog – at this stage in a young blog’s life, regular readers are as rare as unicorns (maybe I can catch some with a virgin). Nope.
This is a work in progress – the province-level map for the Chrysanthemum War campaign. I’m drawing this with Campaign Cartographer 3 and Fractal Terrains 2.3, both from Profantasy Software.
Here’s a work in progress for a game I’m planning to run during Ramadan, a few weeks hence. I’m slowly refining my technique for creating shaded relief maps in Campaign
I recently found copies of the first two volumes of James E. Thorold Rogers’ A History of Agriculture and Prices in England (the first two volumes cover 1259-1400). I found