The Middle Ages was a world on the move. Sometimes this could mean actually picking up your whole life and moving it to another place—a “sometimes” much more frequent than traditional accounts of serfdom and feudalism would have it. For example, teenagers from the countryside sought work in cities to make themselves more worthy marriage…
IT’S OFTEN SAID THAT LIFE’S only certainties are death and taxes, but people have spent centuries figuring out ways to evade the latter. Look no further than a hoard of 2,528 11th-century coins recently discovered in England, which together bear witness to regime change, domestic unrest, and, amid it all, fraud. The coins were found in…
Facebook: Imandra Viking Fest
Initial Impressions This doesn’t feel like a longsword. I’ve handled held a friend’s Arms and Armor montante before, and a Pavel Moc federschwert (insert joke about how big pavel’s standard feders are here), and it felt rather similar to those. It didn’t feel cheap, it didn’t feel under or over constructed, and it rang like…
What’s up in WWII Reenactment Upcoming events: Lockport WWII Days The Victory Show 2019 Tank Farm Open House Military weekend at Cricklade Railway Normandy & D Day Veterans 75th Anniversary Reunion Village at War Weekend 2019 Event report D-Day Conneaut report This week’s craftsman: Partyzant.pl This week’s video: Masurian September by Polish Miliary Channel If…
This year marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day when Allied Forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy during World War II Each year the shores of Lake Erie in Conneaut are transformed into the beaches of Normandy. Continue reading on www.wfmj.com/ and on Facebook
