Daily Medieval

When Shakespeare wrote "All the world’s a stage/And all the men and women merely players"* he probably knew that the metaphor was ...

John of Salisbury liked the idea of academic skepticism, which ultimately came from Plato's Academy. Let me explain. The head of Plato...

A 1675 letter by Isaac Newton has the line: "if I have seen further [than others], it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." ...

I mentioned yesterday that John of Salisbury was one of the medieval authors who understood  eclipses . He had a long career that I'll g...

The Annals of Clonmacnoise have an entry for 670 that reads "The Moone was turned into a sanguine collor this year." A red moon u...

What made Baldwin of Forde (c. 1125 – 19 November 1190) think his connections and his rise to the highest ecclesiastical position in England...

One of the decrees that came out of the Fourth Lateran Council of Pope Innocent III was that "every cathedral or other church of suffi...