The Match
It was the final day of the season, championship day. A boy sat on the tiered, wooden spectator benches waiting for his turn to bat. He...
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wallacealastair
Jan 25, 20239 min read
The World's Largest Cult
The Catholic Church has rightly been described as one of the largest corporations in the world. Under the guise of religion and...
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wallacealastair
Jan 13, 20234 min read
The Crusades - Why Did They Happen?
In late November 1095 CE, Pope Urban II summoned the people of Western (Catholic) Christendom* to come to the defence of the Holy Land....
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wallacealastair
Jan 4, 20234 min read
Feudalism in Medieval Europe
When people think of the Middle Ages, all sorts of images might be conjured up. It might be Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone duelling in...
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wallacealastair
Dec 25, 20222 min read
Marie de France
Marie de France is widely considered to be the first woman to write in French. If any woman preceded her, the works have been lost....
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wallacealastair
Dec 25, 20221 min read
Blurb for 'Festival of the Oppressed'
Love at first sight? Sometimes it happens. The problem isn’t that first sight, it’s the days and months afterwards as you work out who...
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wallacealastair
Aug 14, 20223 min read
Avicenna
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn bin ʿAbdullāh ibn al-Ḥasan bin ʿAlī bin Sīnā al-Balkhi al-Bukhari was a Persian polymath during the Islamic Golden...
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wallacealastair
Aug 8, 20221 min read
Abu Zayd Ahmed ibn Sahl Balkhi
Abu Zayd Ahmed ibn Sahl Balkhi was a 9th-century Persian polymath. He was born in Shamistiyan, in the Khorasan province of Balkh. It is...
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wallacealastair
Nov 6, 20212 min read
Music in the 13th Century
Music—both religious and secular—flourished during the Middle Ages. The troubadours prospered in Southern France leading to the trouvéres...
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