Daily Medieval

[ Notate bene : this post is based on one that originally appeared on 30 June 2012. ] Pope Paul III, as played by Peter O'Toole in ...

Rabbi Levi ben Gerson, also known as Gersonides, lived from 1288-c.1344. He was from a family of scholars: his father, Gerson ben Solomon of...

Since today will have one extra second added to it, I thought it would be a good time to talk about calendar corrections in history. We...

American History has a charming anecdote that the head of the US Patent Office once declared there was nothing left to invent. The backgroun...