You Know You've Been Spending Too Much Time on Early 14th Century History When...

Welcome to the FIRST (NEW) POST on The Despensery. This new site is dedicated to the lighter side of all things medieval and will have fiction, funnies, art and miscellaneous items that don't really fit into the other factual site - Lady Despenser's Scribery.

This is especially dedicated to all those other medieval history geeks - sorry - researchers and writers out there ☺


You Know You’ve Been Spending Too Much Time On Early 14th Century History When…

You sign your letters with Hughs and kisses instead of hugs and kisses.

You refuse to buy any other variety of potato than King Edwards.

Your digital clock tells you that it is 13:22 and you immediately think of Boroughbridge.

After hours of looking at Anglo-French documents suddenly modern day writing looks peculiar and makes no sense. And as for text speak!

Even music by Mozart and Bach sounds too modern.

You look at your shopping receipts and automatically convert the total into marks.

You go for a horse riding lesson and inquire if they have a good palfrey.

(For the girls - mostly) Whereas once upon a time you had a thing about men in uniform, now you have a thing about men in armour.

Your friends and family start to (a) have a glassy look in their eyes when you talk to them about what you’re doing, (b) begin to avoid you.

The word ‘geek’ begins to fit your personality.

You address people as ‘Sire’, ‘Lord’, ‘Lady’ or ‘Madam’ - earning you strange looks at the bank.

You make a special pilgrimage to Blacklow Hill and lay flowers for Piers.

You feel really guilty about eating bacon and egg because you’ve realised that it’s Lent.

You wear a black armband (or celebrate) on November 26th.


If you can think of any more, please send them to me at my email address and I’ll add them to the list.

PS - if anyone knows why I have that strange little box with 'undefined' in next to the post title and how to get rid of it - please let me know as it's really bugging me!