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. Just discovered this painting on wikipedia, never seen it before, first showed up in 2023 in an auction, so it’s pretty unknown.It is a Dutch … More Art review: Dutch bathhouse scene, unknown artist (1500s)
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. Yes, I am the fake history hunter, yes I will be annoying about tiny little details, I will literally be on the lookout for mistakes … More Film review: A Knights Tale (2001)
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)
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. Film review!I’ve watched ‘The King’ (2019). Here are my comments as I watched it. Yes I will ruin this for you by getting annoyed by … More Film review: ‘The King’ (2019)
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. Today I’ll review ‘Life in Medieval Europe, fact and fiction’ by Danièle Cybulskie. When I read this in the introduction, I knew I was going … More Book review: ‘Life in Medieval Europe, fact and fiction’ by Danièle Cybulskie (2021)
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. Review of a film where they did everything wrong… according to how many modern film/tv makers seem to think these days!So yes, they actually did … More Film review: Dû bist mîn ich bin dîn (2025)
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. Let’s do another painting review. I’m just going to look at a nice old painting and share what I notice. This time perhaps the most … More Art review: Hunters in the Snow, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1565)
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. Some of Eggers his historical films are amazing (The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015) & Nosferatu (2024) that I both reviewed) but he sure does … More Film review: The Northman (2022)
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