medieval research with joyce

Congratulations to our Hug a Medievalist Day winners! Debbie G  (who wanted to hug Robin Hood) won the Love and Chivalry puzzle and Judith M...

It's almost here! That day I know you, like I, await breathlessly to roll around each year . . .  Hug a Medievalist Day  (March 31st)! A...

I thought it'd be fun to celebrate Christmas through medieval art this year. So here's the Christmas story as told in scripture acco...

Congratulations to the winners of my  Hug a Medievalist Day  giveaway! Melissa K  won the illustrated copy of Chaucer's  Canterbury Ta...

March 31 is International Hug a Medievalist Day and I want to share it with you with not one, but TWO giveaways, and a book sale! ( Click he...

Your 12th century character needs to visit the Rialto Market in Venice. How does he or she get there? If he is visiting Venice in 1170, lik...

Okay, here’s a tidbit of information I found to share with you about the bell tower of the Church of San Marco (in Italian: campinile di Sa...

There have been (and continue to be) many times during my research efforts on my current unnamed work-in-progress when I asked myself, “What...

Here are some of the places my research and imagination have visited recently: The world of medieval Pater Noster cords. How do they di...

I can't afford to travel to all the places I'd like to visit to research my books--besides, the price of a time travel machine is ab...

Manor:  agricultural estate owned by a lord; sometimes attached to a castle, sometimes attached to a fortified manor house ...