January 2018 - David Phelps

Of GUICHARD DE BEAUJOLAIS

At this time Beaujolais, that delightful region of France, was a semi-autonomous fiefdom. To be in charge of such a

Afonso, the first man who could claim to be king of Portugal, naturally had a lot of enemies. Lords, including

The ruler of a court not much different to that of good King Henry of our present day, King Herla

According to Laura Ashe, Associate Professor at Worcester College, Oxford, in her book “Early Fiction in England”, fiction was invented