Medieval Money 101: Livre, Sou, and Dernier Nothing kills a bit of medieval fiction faster than a character casually paying “fifty pounds” for a loaf of bread, so let’s sort out how money actually worked — and, importantly, why the answer changes depending on which side of the Channel you’re standing. England ran on pounds, […]
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The Village Church and Its Secrets
The Village Church and Its Secrets The village church gets cast, in most fiction, as a place people visit on Sundays and funerals and otherwise ignore. The reality was considerably livelier — and, frankly, a bit more useful. Every parish church needed at least one relic before it could even be consecrated, so somewhere in […]