Daily Medieval

Geoffrey of Monmouth may have been born in Monmouth, Wales, since he refers to himself that way (in Latin, he writes it "Galfridus Mone...

Prophetic death is a staple of mythology and legend. One classic trope is the "threefold death" in which a prophecy claims three d...

I've mentioned before that this blog is about discussing the things about the Middle Ages that are outside the mainstream, so no talking...

The English polymath Francis Galton (1822 - 1911) framed the debate calling the terms ...a convenient jingle of words, for it separates unde...

Robert de Boron was a French poet of the late 12th/early 13th centuries. There are two texts in Old French that are definitively attributed ...