Daily Medieval

We so often study famous people in isolation, forgetting that their lives and successes probably overlapped other well-known people. Imag...

Rabbi Levi ben Gerson, also known as Gersonides, lived from 1288-c.1344. He was from a family of scholars: his father, Gerson ben Solomon of...

Have you seen a modern surveyor using a single vertical rod with an instrument on top to measure property lines? That pole is nicknamed a ...