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Leofric and Lady Godiva

Leofric and Lady Godiva

by David Tollen | Oct 13, 2021 | The Postclassical Age, Author's Corner

The legend of Lady Godiva is based on real events, according to a startling new discovery — but the facts were distorted right from the start, during the heroine’s lifetime. Several months ago, a student found a medieval manuscript in a cellar beneath...

The English Are Celtic (or Something)

by David Tollen | Sep 22, 2014 | The Postclassical Age, Linguistics & Philology

Traditional histories say that when the English migrated to Britain during the 400’s A.D., they almost completely replaced the native Celtic population. In other words, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes — the Germanic peoples who became the English —...
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