Daily Medieval

The First Crusade founded several Christian territories in the East. In order of their founding, they were the County of Edessa, the Princip...

Successful surgery benefits from knowledge of the body's interior, and the study of anatomy was not always easy to come by. Dissecting ...

Knowledge of proper agricultural techniques waned in the thousand years following the fall of Rome, except in monasteries, where texts on so...

The Smithfield Decretals have been mentioned recently. They are a book of decrees drawn from 1,971 letters from Pope Gregory IX, with glos...

The history of medicine includes many brave and progressive thinkers who were not willing to follow the herd or be content with what was alr...