Daily Medieval

In Parts One and Two we get the feeling that forgeries were quite common, and used to "alter history" to the benefit of an insti...

When Byzantine Patriarch Michael I Cerularius made known to Pope Leo IX  what he considered erroneous practices on the part of the Roman Chu...

Lorenzo Valla (c.1407 - 1457) was a scholar and Catholic priest. Like Poggio Bracciolini , he was interested in old manuscripts. His father ...

Lorenzo Valla was born about 1407 in Rome. His father was a lawyer for the pope. Lorenzo studied under Leonardo Bruni (sometimes called the ...

The Donatio Constantini (Latin: "Donation of Constantine") was a document in which the converted Emperor Constantine, whose Edict...