Edward II

Here are a few details about minstrels and other performers in Edward II's era. This is a very, very long way from being an exhaustive l...

A post about the natural disaster which affected northern Europe in the early fourteenth century. In the mid-1310s, the climate was bizarre ...

I know I keep failing to write the promised post on the Great Famine, but it's definitely coming soon. Definitely. In the meantime, here...

In 1313, Edward II and Queen Isabella spent nearly two months in France, between May and July, to attend the simultaneous knighting of her t...

A Happy New Year to you all, and I hope you had a great festive season. I certainly did, having eaten approximately three times my own body ...

This will be the last post until 10 January or thereabouts, as I'm off on holiday tomorrow. Firstly, I'd like to thank author Michae...

Because it's nearly Christmas and I can't be bothered to write a post that requires me to actually do some thinking, here are some m...

Brother John of Newminster and John of Towcester First off, let me admit that I know next to nothing about the first subject of today's ...

Here are some names I really like, spotted while trawling through the Patent and Close Rolls of the early fourteenth century... Isard de Lan...

Courtesy of this site , via Susan Higginbotham and Gabriele Campbell , Edward II's reign for dummies...