the study of the medieval world is a hobby of mine. I am an amateur scholar—though I will dip into academic materials or serious scholarship on occasion, I'm not looking to publish a serious work in return. I flit around between topics and places as my whims take me.
This page will be in essence a collection of short introductions to different medieval topics I find interesting and have done a little research into. Some of them will be authors (Hrotsvitha and HRH Anna Komnene will both certainly appear), some will be specific works of art (the Mabinogion will inevitably get her own page), some will be aboue places (Unless, that is, the Mab is a subsection on a page about Gwynedd; there's no way I will resist making a page about pre-christian Lithuania either).
Again, this is not the fruis of devoted effort but an outflowing of passion for topics I love. We will skip around time, space, and paradigms; I will be sepcific about when and where we are whenever it's warrented.
Below, you see the work of Martellus, who drew this map of the world as he knew it around the year 1490. It's going to help us get around. Thank you, Martellus!
Let's go!