Author Archives: RMBLF

Mail armour (commonly mislabelled ‘chainmail’) was used for more than two millennia on the battlefield. After its invention in the Iron Age, mail rapidly spread all over Europe and beyond. The Roman army, keen on new military technology, soon adopted … Lire la suite →

Canon law touched nearly every aspect of medieval society, including many issues we now think of as purely secular. It regulated marriages, oaths, usury, sorcery, heresy, university life, penance, just war, court procedure, and Christian relations with religious minorities. Canon … Lire la suite →

Focusing on production and patronage, this new volume features over 150 images of magnificently illustrated books and precious bindings, drawn largely from North American collections. The book’s three sections are arranged chronologically, yet in each case with a different thematic … Lire la suite →

L’opera raccoglie per la prima volta l’intera tradizione letteraria che riguarda la leggenda della Papessa Giovanna e quella della verifica della mascolinità, alla quale avrebbe dovuto sottostare ogni pontefice dopo la sua elezione, dalla più antica notizia sulla Papessa, del … Lire la suite →

A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, showing the beauty and communion that flourished alongside the dark brutality—a brilliant reflection of humanity itself. The word “medieval” conjures images of the “Dark Ages”—centuries … Lire la suite →