A few people have asked how I have come up with the title and what Lotharingia means. Matilde, my heroine, is known as Matilda of...

In many ways, Countess Matilde of Tuscany was the most remarkable woman of the XI century. She must have made quite an impression on...

Medieval Europe did not really have historians in the modern (or ancient Greek) sense of the word. It had chroniclers and propagandists....