It’s something that would seem outlandish to us - the idea of asking a stranger if you could stay the night. But, it features in old novels, and earlier, monasteries were expected to accommodate trav… (View Post)

As I tend to look at military blogs, all manner of offensive drivel comes my way, about how only white soldiers can be trusted, ignoring hundreds of thousands of Africans, Indians, Chinese, West Indi… (View Post)

The “best” are the “novels” of Brandy Purdy. She wrote a lesbian sex scene, involving Katherine Howard, Anne of Cleves, and a pot of honey. She wrote of Piers Gaveston being a pagan male prostitute. (View Post)

There were three Herods, around that time; murderous batshit Herod; Herod Archelaus, and Herod Antipas. Quite possibly, the three gets mixed up. (View Post)

The same way that the “Publicans” in the Bible are not innkeepers at all. I’m not sure that inns (as we, or even medieval people) would understand them, would have been a thing, in that time and plac… (View Post)