Daily Medieval

In the first part , we looked at the introduction of Christianity into what became Ethiopia during the 4th century. The Muslim presence in t...

Ethiopia was a fiercely Christian country in the Middle Ages, long before European colonization brought Christianity to Africa. To be fair, ...

After the death of Muhammad in June 632, his followers discussed who should carry on his message to all parts of the world. Muhammad's c...

A nun, a poet, a playwright— Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim has been called the most remarkable woman of her time, but she was hardly known until...

Christianity in the Middle Ages did not approve of Islam and its swift growth. It was not many years after the death of Muhammad in 632 CE t...

They call themselves the Amazigh, but history knows them as Berbers, who inhabited northwestern Africa since at least 10,000BCE. The etymolo...

We cannot talk about the Order of Assassins without talking about the word "assassin" and its origin, and you may be surprised to ...

Averroes (1126-1198) undertook to explain and comment on the works of Aristotle, in an attempt to clarify the Greek philosopher's conce...

Statue commemorating Averroes in C órdoba Averroes (1126-1198) was born in Córdoba into a family of distinguished jurists and scholars a...

As attractive as astrology was in the Middle Ages, not everyone was willing to accept the premise that it was "easy" to use it...

Abu Ma'shar, from his Introduction to Astronomy Albertus Magnus , Robert Grosseteste , Geoffrey Chaucer —well-known names from the M...

After the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Turks, Nicholas of Cusa (c.1400-1464) wrote De pace fidei (On the Peace of Faith), in which...