Daily Medieval

Halakha  comes from the Hebrew root halakh ,which means "to walk" or "to go." Halakha  therefor means "the way to w...

Recent posts have talked about different individual's attitude toward Maimonides and what they did about it—sometimes with radical conse...

Yesterday we started looking at some of the predictions about the Jewish Messiah appearing in the 12th century. The 13th century had its ow...

Yesterday's post explained how Abner of Burgos ' conversion to Christianity from Judaism may have started with doubts after treating...

Abner of Burgos (c.1270 – c.1347) converted to Christianity from Judaism around 1320, taking on the name Alfonso of Valladolid or "Mast...

After the Christian conversion of the Kingdom of Aksum, and before the asylum given to some of the first Muslims , there were Jews in Aksu...

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