Category Archives: Great Characters of the Middle Ages

Elisha Mancer Launch Day! With footnotes. . .

Posted on February 7, 2017 by E. C. Ambrose

Elisha Mancer, Book 4 of The Dark Apostle, is now available in bookstores everywhere!  And you can find sample chapters for this, and all of the books in the series, at TheDarkApostle.com  When you love it, you can click through … Continue reading →

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A Queen for our time? Joanna of Naples, Great Characters of the Middle Ages

Posted on November 11, 2016 by E. C. Ambrose

This is the latest installment in my Great Characters of the Middle Ages series.  Some of these folks are people who are appearing my my work. Joanna, alas, I must set aside–though I am tempted to post some of the … Continue reading →

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The Two Emperors: part II, Charles IV

Posted on March 11, 2016 by E. C. Ambrose

At the end of the first part of this blog, I noted that Charles IV could not have been more different from his rival, Louis the Bavarian.  Charles, born 1316, was 34 years younger, handsome and affable. He was highly … Continue reading →

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The Two Emperors: part I, Louis the Bavarian, the Man who Named his own Pope

Posted on March 5, 2016 by E. C. Ambrose

During the period when the Dark Apostle novels are set, much of central Europe was consolidated as the Holy Roman Empire (which the wags are fond of pointing out was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire–all valid points, but … Continue reading →

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Review: Hereward the Wake, ‘Last of the English’

Posted on September 26, 2013 by E. C. Ambrose

Hereward the Wake, ‘Last of the English’ by Charles Kingsley My rating: 5 of 5 stars A marvelous adventure story with a medieval setting about the legendary hero of England. I picked up the new Audible edition, read by the … Continue reading →

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Papal Resignation: 13th Century Style

Posted on February 12, 2013 by E. C. Ambrose

So both of my papers carried stories today about the historic resignation of the Pope. Definitely big news. And both of them referred to the occasion by mentioning the last time a Pope resigned, in 1415–when Pope Gregory XII stepped … Continue reading →

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Great Characters of the Middle Ages: Rahere, Hospital Founder and King’s Fool

Posted on January 30, 2013 by E. C. Ambrose

This is the second in an irregular series of the unsung heroes, villains, and fools of the fourteenth century. You’ll notice as the series proceeds that there’s a lot of crossover between these categories, but none makes that so clear … Continue reading →

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