Gaining power is difficult, but holding everything together once you’ve arrived... well, therein lies the real challenge.

Frankish Kings emulated Constantine... was this used against them? Find out how the Donation of Pépin may have been based on a fraud!

Pépin le Bref is now King Pépin I, having just overthrown the last Merovingian. The Pope is on the run from the Lombards. Worlds collide...

How many language learning apps have you tried? For me, I think I’m up to about 10. Seriously! Duolingo, Kwiziq, Memrise, French in...

A year in prison. A broken army. And now caught between two tribes. No problem, Charles Martel thought. I've got them right where I want...

A powerful man, a young woman and an upset, long-suffering wife from the 7th century prove that midlife crises are timeless...

The T+M source list for... everything. The goal at Thugs and Miracles is to be as transparent as possible, so here's our ingredients list!

How do you justify the notion that certain people were chosen, either by God or by fate, to sit in judgement over all other people?

Victory rides on a knife’s edge. Oftentimes what appears to be a loss is actually the access point to a path not hitherto contemplated...

Welcome to the April edition of the T+M newsletter (Volume #3) Eight Kings, the coup d'état goes full circle, and the Mayors finally...

Twenty years. A lot can change in the world in 20 years. A lot can change in a person. And that’s how long Dagobert II was locked away...

Leodegar knew he had been bested as he looked out of his window and saw the army below waiting for his capitulation...

This week we’re finishing the trilogy that began with a coup... and then kept getting worse. Meet Ebroin, the new Mayor of the Palace...

"The King may let you go to a monastery, or he may choose to end your life quickly. Those are your only real options..."

The long hair marking Dagobert II as a Merovingian prince was gone, replaced instead by a tonsure that marked his as a monk...

Bathilda was slender and had long, golden hair, but more than this, the girl walked with poise strikingly out of place in a slave market...

Hey, I know this is supposed to be an “off” week, but it has been a while since we brought you a Rabbit Hole episode and we've come...

There's a saying that you should never meet your heroes. Well, as I recently found out, you should never research them either.

“The Queen is dead, bishop, and our King is now an orphan. I rule the in his name, and that makes it my responsibility to tell him..."

Samo sat alone before his campfire, considering the battle to take place and how best to prosecute his attack against the mighty Franks.