Greetings. 
You've found, one way or another, my academic homepage, on which are described my various endeavours in the world of medieval history. Here you can find out what I've done, what I'm doing, and some of what else is out there.
I've been a student of early medieval history (that is, before c. 1100) since the first year of my undergraduate degree. It's now a number of years later, I have that, a Masters, a doctorate and I still haven't had enough. Currently I'm working in Cambridge (England), a city that I've found it very hard to escape for very long (all reasonable offers considered of course). Although my personal interests are in early medieval history, particularly as found in charters 
or in Spain (especially Catalonia) and ideally both, I've taught and can teach a far wider spread and actually have made a lot more money out of being able to work databases, a hint that I persist in not taking.
Part of the reason for that will be the interest I have, and think anyone can share, in the period, its events and people. 
I'm not going to make huge claims about its modern-day relevance. That's because firstly when history is put to serve modern purposes it usually seems to be misused, so those of us who are hooked on trying to close in what really happened probably don't want to end up doing that. The second reason is that, ultimately, the average person can lead a full, busy and fulfilling life without ever knowing, for example, whether King Arthur really existed, what the Vikings actually did, how King Harold really died at Hastings, why people went on Crusade, exactly how many masters a Reconquista man might serve or simply what there was to eat for dinner when you were a peasant (which all depends when you were a peasant of course). That doesn't mean that knowing these things, or, where they're not known, trying to find them out, isn't fun. The question is simply one of whether you're interested in people or not.
If you are, I can assure you that the Middle Ages was full of them, and what I do is how you go about meeting them, as far as we still can. 
Some of them did grand things, changed their world and started legends; some of them did nothing that lasted more than a few years. About a few of them we are told a number of outright contradictory things; about most, nothing but what we can deduce from stray sources talking about other things. Answers may have to come from archives, 
crumbling manuscripts, rescue excavations, pollen analysis, standing stones, graffiti, or even folk tradition. But all that means is that the researcher will never run out of worlds to conquer.
If I've piqued your interest, feel free to browse the links at the left. Some are intended for students, and some for researchers; the CV is intended for anyone who'd like me to try this pitch in a classroom, assuming that since I put it up I have not been snatched off the employment market. Meanwhile I hope that whatever you're doing is as much fun as what I am.