Daily Medieval

When Christians and Muslims were burning down each other's houses of worship in Egypt during the reign of Sultan  al-Nasir Muhammad (li...

Priscillianism was considered heretical partially because its origin was in gnostic beliefs coming from Egypt. Gnosticism, from the Greek γν...

Folklores from all over the world include tales of dog-headed humanoids. The phenomenon is referred to as cynocephaly, from the Greek words ...

Naalbinding technique [ link ] Technically, today's post is not about knitting, but about an earlier technique with a similar resul...

Sebinkarahisar, possible burial site of Ewastatewos [ link ] The word "sabbath" has a long history. Our word is from the Old ...

Diagram of an eclipse from a modern translation of Hipparchus It is not always easy to figure out dates from classical or medieval writi...

St. Anthony the Great is credited with being the first monk in that he did not just live an ascetic life, but also he removed himself fro...

The Classical and Middle Ages generated more Saints Anthony that you can shake a crozier at: Anthony of Antioch (d.302) Anthony the Hermi...

Coptic Icon of St. Mark Coptic Christians have suddenly been in the news, from a centuries-old fragment of papyrus with a supposed refer...