Daily Medieval

History doesn't usually commemorate the losers, but in some cases the figure involved has fought (and lost) so spectacularly that the ev...

Bohemia, the home of  Wenceslaus  and where Jan Hus found support, was named from a Roman account. The names of both Bohemia and its nei...

Today is the anniversary of Attila the Hun's attack on the town of Metz in Gaul. In the 1st century CE, the Roman historian Tacitus ...

Remains of an irminsul in Friedrichsgrund The Royal Frankish Annals have an entry for 772: The most gracious Lord King Charles then h...