The Medieval World

Detail of Saint Denis from The Crucifixion of the Parliament of Paris , c.1452, Paris, Mus ée du Louvre. Today being 9 October makes t...

Whilst I was staying in Bordeaux I went on a little day trip to the nearby medieval town Saint-Émilion. For anybody else planning on doi...

The first stop on my travels this Summer was Bordeaux in Southern France. Here are some photos of a few of the medieval places that I visite...

Background Ogier the Dane (French: Ogier le Danois or Ogier de Danemarche; Danish: Holger Danske) was a widely known and exceptionally pop...

The old French epic known as Raoul of Cambrai, belongs to a genre of poems known as the chansons de geste  (meaning 'songs of deeds...