Lost culture is exciting. How can something be exciting when we have lost it? Most times when we talk about loss, it’s in terms of the ev...

  Right now, I’m not in the Middle Ages. I’m in the seventeenth century. An important part of my research is looking at whether one novelis...

This month I asked readers what they’d like me to write about. I was given half a dozen good suggestions, and a couple of silly ones.  ...