Daily Medieval

There is a 20th century art historian who has appeared in two posts because of his eye-opening contributions to the field in the 1940s: here...

Scholasticism (from the Latin word scholasticus , which is from the Greek σχολαστικός, "pertaining to schools") was a method for a...

Around 1100CE, monastic schools started to discover the works of Aristotle, thanks to Judea-Islamic translations. Just as scholarly study wa...

Anselm of Laon (d.15 July 1117) studied under one of the great names of the day, St. Anselm of Bec, whom I teased about here . He became a m...