About this Blog

 Greetings lords and ladies of the far lands! Greetings kings, princes, and nobles all! Sit at your tables to drink fresh wine, and eat the hunted stag! Behold, the minstrel with his timbrel enters to sing a song and tell of long ago!
 Seriously, greetings my fellow modern readers. I made this blog to posts about anything of the Middle Ages, and the ushering Renaissance, which so followed it.
 I am a Medievalist in that I have studied the Middle Ages my whole life. I have researched intensely into Medieval theology, knighthood, Vikings, Anglo-Normans, and chivalry, Castles, as well as Crusading. I have also studied the Renaissance, with a particular knowledge of the Reformation that went on during it. I am a lover of Medieval Literature, especially the Divine Comedy by Dante, and the Arthurian legends. I am also a student of St. Augustine's writings, and crave down his words like for my mind, as one does good food for the stomach. I also have an appreciation for Medieval Art, and illuminated manuscripts.
 My personal love for knighthood since a young age, has inspired me since the age of fourteen to write a series of books on the Crusades that I am still working on called Kings and Crusaders. It a series about the days of Richard I of England and Saladin of Syria. The books are a series of novels, yet novels that were based on heavy historical research.
 My books, my thoughts, and my drawings , and maps are all things I probably will discuss on this blog. Many of my posts will be on a particular subjects, and hopefully not to long of posts, but just enough to inspire my readers into the Medieval Mind. Thus this blog's posts will surface and discuss a variety of Medieval subjects.
 All that said, I am currently, as this post is being written, earning credit to gain B. S. in History. When that is achieved, I hope to enter a Medieval Studies program for an M. A. in that subject.
 Along the way, I hope to learn Latin by self study and some help from a good curriculum. I learned some of it in high school, but that has been sometime ago, and my knowledge of that subject is certainly not scholarly.
 On the other hand, I do plan to back up the references in my posts to the sources I got the information of that particular subject. That is not a discipline I have commonly held to in blogging elsewhere.
 The Medievalist of course, is not just my posts, but for a community of people who love and study the middle ages, or who aspire to come to know more about it. Your comments and likes will certainly help this blog reach others, and are most appreciated.
 The main author is Joshua Dotson, though other authors may write posts for this blog in the days to come. I plan to write a post on this blog every Saturday.
 Last, every post will end with a quote from Medieval Times.




''The greatest scholars, are not usually the wisest of people.''
 -Geoffrey Chaucer

 A manuscript of Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. A book of poetry, it is essential to Medieval Literature with it's comedic tales of various people and animals from that era.