Daily Medieval

Taliesin (6th century) came a legendary figure of whom many stories are told and to whom many poems are ascribed—(almost) all of it fiction....

The 9th-century Historia Brittonum  mentions five especially renowned British poets, one of whom is Taliesin. In the 12th century he was con...

Today presents many opportunities to tie into previous posts. It is the date of the deaths of St. Rémy in 533, of Abbot Suger in 1151. I...