Daily Medieval

[ source ] In the Middle Ages, birthdays were not usually marked by the common people. They didn't keep calendars on the kitchen wal...

Online version of this translation Dhuoda 's Liber manualis (Manual/Handbook) is a unique work by a female author from the 9th cen...

Bernard of Septimania, whose fate interweaves the recent posts on Carolingian civil wars, married Dhuoda on 24 June 824. She bore him two so...

Uzés was founded around an early Roman aqueduct Back here I mentioned that Bernard of Septimania married a woman named Dhuoda, whom he ...

Coronation of Louis the Pious, by Jean Fouquet (1455) Yesterday's post about William of Gellone didn't mention his family at al...