The medieval mind saw things rather differently than many people today. It was a world, I believe, where the physical and the supernatural, or spiritual, lived in…dare I say…communion? No pun intended. (But never look a gift pun in the mouth!)Other blog posts here have discussed saints and miracles. And more will in the future. […]
The first Valentine’s Day thoughts, as we know them weren’t sent until hundreds of years after the death of the Good Sir James. Nonetheless, it seemed a good title for a piece on how James spent February 14, 1316. He spent it fighting what he later called the hardest fight of his life, the battle of […]
The legendary Knights Templar and the dainty bluebell: an unlikely pair. However, the Knights Templar are among the research topics of which I have skimmed the surface, in writing the Blue Bells Trilogy. Of course, the trilogy is not directly about the flower. In fact, not at all, really. The title comes from a piece of standard […]