This article was originally a thread on social media, which is why it is formatted with lots of images and short responses.The text is about the image below that paragraph. Shall we take another look at a typical low countries winter painting?Today we’re checking out ‘The Census at Bethlehem’ by the amazing Pieter Bruegel the … More Art review: ‘The Census at Bethlehem’ by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1566)

In stead of sending a link to old threads on social media every time someone posts nonsense about medieval hygiene, I’ve decided to just collect a whole bunch of links here on this page. Yes, a lot of people still believe that Medieval Europeans rarely or never bathed, didn’t have soap, were scared of water, … More Articles, links & videos about Medieval hygiene

This is not YET another article on why calling the early middle ages the dark ages is iffy, it’s a list of sources & references. These days most historians no longer use the term “Dark Ages” to describe the Early Middle Ages (roughly AD500- AD1500), we still use it for other eras, like the 1970s … More Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”

This article was originally a thread on social media, which is why it is formatted with lots of images and short responses.The text is about the image below that paragraph. Another art review, let’s check out some old art together and see what we can find out about it.This time a wonderful winter themed painting … More Art review: ‘Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters’ by Hendrick Avercamp (c. 1608)