Daily Medieval

Actually, when Petrarch referred to Genoa as "la Superba" he meant "the proud one." Genoa, on the northwest coast of th...

The Glory of the Roman Empire was seen by the Middle Ages as a Golden Age. Petrarch lamented the loss of learning and art between the peak...

Funerary monument to Hawkwood This is the story of how an English soldier of no particular background rose to such prominence that a mo...

The "Beast of Provence" (also known as the "Giant of Provence" or "Bald Mountain") is actually Mont Ventoux [M...

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

So if the phrase "Dark Ages" was coined by Petrarch to describe the loss/lapse of much classical learning and advancement since th...

Once in a time known as the Dark Ages There lived a legend whose coming had been foretold by the great prophet Merlin. This is the openi...