The age of the monks

This fall I will be teaching, for the first time in a very long time, part of our second-year survey of the Middle Ages. I will be teaching the first half of the course, up to about 1100.I feel very capable when it comes to the period up to about 600, and after 1100 would not be...

Living your ideals

In light of a conversation I had earlier today, something that other people have noticedoccured to me : a lot of the problems of the SCA derive from the fact that it is trying to re-create not reality but an ideal creation. Take it a step further. In a sense an SCA member is on the...