I began research on Montfort in 1977. By 1985 I had the first draft completed, at approximately 1,500 pages. There were a few fairly recent…
As an historian who has devoted 35 years to the study of 13th century documents relating to Simon de Montfort I would like to take…
Pigeons, Doves and Squab: for food, sport, communications, and as icon Pigeons: those annoying fowl who strut about underfoot in most cities, have been living…
Chivalry, Truth and the Middle Ages You out there who are reading, reenacting, going to Renaissance faires, opting out of the 21st century if just…
Eleanor, Countess of Leicester, is entertaining Robert Grosseteste, the Bishop of Lincoln and Peter de Montfort, her husband’s cousin from Gloucestershire at her castle of…
by Katherine Ashe When Julius Caesar arrived in Albion, what we call Briton, he reported to the Roman Senate that here was a land completely…
by Katherine Ashe The City of Leicester. In the so called “dark” and “middle’ ages, Leicester was not a happy place. In 1173, by order…
by Katherine Ashe Theater, in England as in ancient Greece, originally was an expression of religion. Scholars pin the beginning of English theater at about…
by Katherine Ashe Roger Bacon is considered to have introduced the formula and use of gunpowder to Europe in an article in his encyclopedic De…
Was Simon de Montfort born in 1209? Most historians lean toward that date. He would have been twenty or twenty-one when he arrived in England:…