If you thought Westeros was all Red Weddings and dragon drama, the world that sits behind A...
Swords from Literature
Swords in literature have long symbolized various themes, from heroism and power to honour and destiny.
Pirate fiction is usually all crashing waves and rum-fuelled chaos, but Flint and Silver manage something far...
Arthur’s Round Table did not begin as the enormous roster modern authors love to parade. Early texts...
If you spend long enough in the company of medieval texts, you start to feel as if...
This corner of Arthurian legend feels different when viewed through the Pendragon Cycle. It is familiar enough...
I have spent enough time with Homer and the later cycles to feel both admiration and a...
Some characters lift cars or blast lasers. Others pick up a sword and decide that life is...
David Lowery’s The Green Knight arrives wrapped in mist, riddles and odd silences that make you wonder...
A Historian’s Look at Legend, Politics and Steel Excalibur has always sat at an odd crossroads. Half...
Watching The Name of the Rose today feels a bit like wandering into a medieval library after...