The Byzantine Empire loved paperwork, ceremony, gold embroidery, and theological arguments that could somehow turn into street...
Jayne Ellis
Jayne Ellis is a History graduate from the University of York with a deep fascination for ancient societies and the human experience that shaped them. Her writing reflects a keen eye for cultural nuance and a traveller’s instinct for perspective, often weaving lived experience with historical insight. Serious in her research yet unafraid to voice an opinion, Jayne approaches the past with curiosity, rigour, and the occasional sharp edge, because history, after all, was never neutral.
There are some medieval figures who seem trapped forever inside other men’s mistakes. Raymond III of Tripoli...
The struggle between the Almoravids and Almohads was not merely a dynastic quarrel between rival North African...
Some pirates became legends because they were successful. Others because they were terrifying. Mary Read occupies a...
The Battle of Manzikert has acquired a reputation somewhere between tragedy and political farce, which is fitting...
Few medieval figures loom over the 12th century quite like Bernard of Clairvaux. Monk, reformer, political adviser,...
The medieval Islamic world produced no shortage of elite military formations, though few inspire quite the same...
There are pirates who terrified empires, pirates who seized fortunes beyond reason, and then there is Calico...
Few English kings have inspired more fascination, argument, or quietly horrified eyebrow raises than Henry VIII. School...
Few medieval chroniclers have shaped modern understanding of the Crusades more than William of Tyre. Without him,...