Welcome

Greetings, worthy webfarer! Welcome to the Barbarians Are Hungry.

I began this site in 2013 as a food blog and revived it as a research blog in 2020. It is a personal academic blog. This means that I share my research, reading, and writing on late antiquity and the early Middle Ages in an informal way. My aim is to convey how and why I do history, alongside my conclusions, confusions, and discoveries, in a style that is clear and engaging for any interested reader.

This blog lands somewhere between the pen trials medieval scribes made in their manuscripts and a Renaissance commonplace book. Ultimately, it is a collection of musings on history, books, crafts, poems, recipes and other lovely things that inspire me as a scholar and a person.

I hope what I share here surprises, amuses, or delights you. Thank you for taking the time to read and visit!

A Note on Sharing and Copyright

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Just in case it needs saying, all opinions shared on this blog represent my own views and not those of my employer or any other organisation.