Daily Medieval

We in the West often think of African slaves in North America when the topic of slavery comes up, as if it were a facet of the Industrial Ag...

Mendicants In the later part of the 13th century, a new order was founded in northern Italy. Sort of. The founder, Gerard Segarelli...

Saluzzo, a town and principality in northern Italy, had some interesting connections to England. It was a simple tribal city-state in Roman...

One of the famous sites in Florence, Italy, is the Ponte Vecchio, the bridge over the River Arno. Ponte Vecchio means "old bridge,...

Scholar and Teacher, Priest and Politician There are two reasons why I want to mention Lanfranc today. One is because today is the 923rd a...