I've never even seen Assassin's Creed played, but I hear enough about it to know that for a certain segment of the population, it's the main thing they know about popular medievalism. This Christmas, Assassin's Creed II might be the most popular...

Medievalists.net has a set of videos of the Historical Ordnance workshop testing medieval gunpowder recipes. Though we think of the sword, spear, bow and the shield as the mainstays of medieval warfare, there was gunpowder. The problem with gunpowder...

Recently hackers broke into the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit and posted about 62 megs of internal e-mails about the CRU's work.* The e-mails have caused a scandal because they appear to suggest that the CRU researchers have been...

What I want for Christmas can be found at Stæfcræft & Vyākaraṇa: a stunning figurine of Odin on his throne.

This is the time of year that people invariably ask me about Thanksgiving in the Middle Ages. Did they have it? What was it like? Tolkien tells us, "Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no," and the same could be said about...