Basil Dragonstrike @BasilDragonstrike@medievalist.masto.host

How to avoid being executed:
https://www.medievalists.net/2019/12/saved-execution-middle-ages/

Vikings who did weird things to their teeth:
https://www.medievalists.net/2020/01/vikings-their-filed-teeth/

Women and Elizabethan theater:
https://daily.jstor.org/the-rowdy-women-of-early-modern-theater/

Wanna buy a castle? I've got two for you to look at:
https://www.medievalists.net/2020/01/french-castle-for-sale-manoir-de-la-sausserie/
https://www.medievalists.net/2020/01/16th-century-scottish-castle-for-sale/

Two museum exhibits I wish I could see:
https://www.medievalists.net/2019/12/combining-chivalry-and-technology-the-last-knight-and-making-marvels-at-the-metropolitan-museum/

If you are what you eat, here's help for becomeing medieval:
https://www.medievalists.net/2019/12/modern-foods-medieval-origins/
(including the Frisky Goat Story!™)

Medivalists.net has a bunch of god ones - - -

Looking for gender equality in the Middle Ages? Try Scandinavia:
https://www.medievalists.net/2019/11/gender-equality-and-the-vikings/

How about a lusty, free-speaking woman? Try Wales:
https://www.medievalists.net/2019/01/gwerful-mechain-and-the-joy-of-medieval-sex/?utm_source=Sovrn_recirc&utm_medium=Bibblio_widget

Do you often wake up in the middle of the night, then soon fall asleep again? You're medieval!:
https://www.medievalists.net/2016/01/how-did-people-sleep-in-the-middle-ages/?utm_source=Sovrn_recirc&utm_medium=Bibblio_widget

Medieval advice:
https://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/10-great-tips-from-the-middle-ages/?utm_source=Sovrn_recirc&utm_medium=Bibblio_widget

Vegitarians aren't entirely new:
https://www.medievalists.net/2018/01/the-medieval-vegetarian/

How to throw your weight around, medievally:
https://www.medievalists.net/2019/10/siege-engines-during-the-crusades/

Oh, go outside and play--in medieval London:
https://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/sports-medieval-london/

Wise words are always welcome:
https://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/wise-words-from-the-9th-century/

A couple of good ones from medievalists.net - - -

Do you know almost nothing about early medieval art styles? Here's a quick look over the field:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/early-medieval-art/

Continuing the trend of the last few years of looking outside Europe--an exhibition of Medival African Art:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/medieval-africa-spotlighted-in-new-exhibition-at-the-aga-khan-museum/
(makes we wish I could get to eastern Canada)

Textiles and clothes from Byzantium---two museum shows:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/two-medieval-textile-exhibitions-open-in-washington-d-c/

Have you ever come across the phrase "broken on the wheel"? This is what that means:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/archaeologists-discover-medieval-man-broken-on-the-wheel/

Do movie makers and book writers distort history for a "better" story? Yes. Is that a modern-only bad habit? No.
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/how-richard-the-lionheart-got-his-name-the-epic-version/

Want to be a berserker? It's not the bearskin that does the job:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/did-henbane-make-berserkers-go-berserk/

Irish dictionary:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/lost-irish-words-rediscovered-including-the-word-for-oozes-pus/
(some of those should've stayed lost)

Health, Medieval style (which looks rather modern, mostly):
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/six-medieval-rules-for-healthy-living/

Last but far from least --- It's 14th century London, and everyone's white, right? Right??
Wrong!!:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/black-death-burials-reveal-the-diversity-of-londons-medieval-population/
Note especially the mixed-ancestry folks.

Save up your pennies, kids, they'll be valuable some day!:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/huge-anglo-norman-coin-hoard-discovered-in-england/

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/08/the-assassination-of-ahmad-ibn-ismail-power-struggles-in-the-samanid-empire/

Students have always needed money from Dad. Always:
http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/dear-dad-send-money-letters-from-students-in-the-middle-ages/

Medieval road trips were not fun:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/08/travel-middle-ages-road/

The ol' Robin Hood/Sherwood Forest link may be a misunderstanding:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/08/robin-hood-sherwood-forest-barnsdale/

Some crime-fiction writers make their lives harder by making their detectives medieval:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/08/the-complicated-case-of-medieval-crime-fiction/

Not much bunny-fur bikinis mentioned:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/08/pennsic/

The Black Death is rampaging through Europe; where do you want to be? Poland! Poland? Poland:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/08/black-death-did-not-reach-poland-according-to-peat-bog-evidence/

Not all the Crusaders were western Europeans:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/04/first-genetic-study-of-crusaders-reveals-diverse-origins/

You've cut off some body part from some Anglo-Saxon. What punishment does the law lay down?:
http://www.medievalists.net/2018/01/anglo-saxon-punishments-price-pinky/

Interesting details in the Bayeux Tapestry:
http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/ten-things-may-noticed-bayeux-tapestry/

Post-SCA-period, but interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzCYr8pySY&feature=youtu.be

Medieval rules for jousting: how to tell the winner:
http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/medieval-rules-jousting/

A test on Vikings I hope you can all ace:
http://www.medievalists.net/2018/08/can-you-spot-the-viking-facts-from-the-fiction/
(I might laugh at you if you don't)

One of the less common writing materials:
http://www.medievalists.net/2018/08/medieval-daily-life-birchbark/

"If you want it to sell, you've got to give it a good title":
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/08/ten-fabulous-medieval-book-titles/
This one is a lot of fun; enjoy! :-)

The staff of life, medieval style:
http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/bread-in-the-middle-ages/