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After the sack of Genoa by the Fatimids, the city started to recover. One avenue for commercial growth was the Crusades, and the First Crus...

Some Byzantine rulers invaded lands far enough from Constantinople that it made sense to establish the territories as separate empires. One ...

After King David VI Narin of Georgia took the western half of the kingdom and seceded from Georgia , he became King David I of Imereti (West...

When the East-West Schism was over 200 years old, Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Paleologos (1224 - 1282) asked Pope Gregory X to help reun...

Trial by Ordeal took many forms in the ancient world and the Middle Ages. In a sense, it was an appeal to God to reveal the culprit. In Old ...

Alexios Comnenos Strategopoulos Recently, DailyMedieval covered the 4th Crusade and its misguided conquest of Constantinople. ( This po...

Pope Gregory at the Second Council of Lyons The Second Council of Lyons, mentioned yesterday, accomplished many things. It was called by...