The Vikings had a talent for turning up unexpectedly, causing chaos, winning fortunes and occasionally leaving an...
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.
The Short Answer Yes, Viking berserkers were probably real, though not quite in the way films, television...
The Siege of Acre in 1291 was the end of nearly two centuries of Crusader rule in...
Who Was Aethelwulf? Aethelwulf, King of Wessex, ruled from 839 to 858. He is often remembered simply...
Medieval Europe liked to imagine the Church as a place of prayer, incense and solemn men quietly...
The Battle of Pontvallain, fought on 4 December 1370, rarely receives the same attention as Crécy, Poitiers...
The Spanish caballero occupies a curious place in medieval history. He was a knight, certainly, but not...
Castel del Monte sits alone on a hill in Apulia like a great stone riddle. At first...
The Dynasty That Built Baghdad The Abbasid Dynasty ruled much of the Islamic world from 750 to...
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II is set in a world where the church is not simply a backdrop...