Historical Fiction Research

October - my favorite month.  My son was born in October; my wedding anniversary is in October.  It's the one month of the year when ...

Marriage of Buondelmonte, February 11, 1216 This painting, by Saverio Altamura from about 1858-60, depicts an historic event, one of on...

Tomb of the Leopards, Tarquinia The Etruscans used many animal figures in their frescoes and sculptures and pottery, which feature creat...

When you get a lot of musicians together in one place, interesting things happen. Terry Jones, medievalist and Python, cites an example...

Lowde mynstralcyes, indeed.  That's what Chaucer calls a huge gathering of minstrels and jongleurs he wrote about in his work House o...

Scene from Gianni Schicchi  Both, actually. Opera fans know Gianni Schicchi as a one-act comic opera by Giacomo Puccini, written in 1...