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. I’ve been playing ‘Medieval Dynasty’, a great game set in the middle ages, but there’s of course always something to complain about, you know me. … More Game review: Medieval Dynasty (2021)
The internet is currently being flooded by a tidal wave of AI videos, every day more and more are uploaded, most of them are very bad, probably because not just the visuals but also the research was done by an LLM or by a human who didn’t spend as much time doing research as they … More AI review: Chloe VS History
This article was originally (partially) 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 finished ‘A Plague Tale: Requiem’.A young woman tries to save her little brother from a rat & plague related curse. I’ll share my … More Game review: ‘A Plague Tale: Requiem’ (2022)
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)
Yes this is yet another annoying film review by history addict who pays much too attention to little details.This time I’m reviewing ‘Black Death; (Imdb page) from 2010.Here’s the trailer: Advance warning, I love Sean Bean, so I’m totally biased and will probably not be very critical if he does anything wrong. I mean, it’s … More Film review: ‘Black Death’ (2010)
For a long time historians have been more interested in the stories of royals, nobles, knights and other important and powerful people, than they have been in the lives of the common folk.But I’ve always cared more about what life was like for people like me, not rich, not powerful, not living in palaces, etc. … More Book review: ‘Urban Women: Life, Love, and Work in the Medieval Low Countries’ by Andrea Bardyn, Chanelle Delameillieure, Jelle Haemers (2019)
Let’s review a youtube video. “What Hygiene Was Like During the Black Plague“, made by ‘Weird history‘, a channel with 4.6 million subscribers. This video has 1 million views.First illustration is from 1625… not medieval. The thumbnail: The video is about the “black plague”, but it’s actually about the Black Death.Plague was the disease, Black … More Youtube review: “What Hygiene Was Like During the Black Plague” by ‘Weird history’
I’ve just finished reading ‘Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities’ by Carole Rawcliffe, Professor of Medieval History, University of East Anglia.More about the book here. If you still kind of belief medieval folks weren’t into bathing and didn’t mind living in towns were people just chucked waste into the streets, … More Book review: ‘Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities’ by Carole Rawcliffe (2013)
