Daily Medieval

Until fairly recently there was an idea that "childhood" as we think of it today did not exist in the Middle Ages. You can see thi...

There is a question about Ursus arctos  in England, the brown bear that was most common in that part of the world: when did it disappear? Th...

The idea that quoits—a game in which players toss rings at a stake, hoping to encircle it—originated with the " Greek or Roman discus ...

Among the accomplishments of Hermann of Reichenau , he also provides us with the set of rules for one of Europe's oldest board games, ...