Daily Medieval

The First Crusade founded several Christian territories in the East. In order of their founding, they were the County of Edessa, the Princip...

The goal and prediction of Jeanne d'Arc was that she would lift the Siege of Orléans and get the Dauphin crowned as King Charles VII of...

Gerald of Wales (Giraldus Cambrensis, c.1146 - 1223) was a priest and a writer of history. That could be the introduction for many of the fo...

The Bubonic Plague's first appearance in medieval Europe from 1348-1351, and it was terrifying. At least one-quarter to one-third of the...

We talked here about how women and Jewish women could be physicians in the Middle Ages, but it would be a mistake to think that there was n...

John of Garland (c.1180 - c.[at least] 1252) was an English grammarian and poet. (He wrote a poem about a recording demon .) Despite his Eng...

Simon of Sudbury, or just Simon Sudbury, was one of those people who shows up here and there, for instance during the Peasants' Revolt w...

It seems unfair that I mention Jacques de Vitry here and here and here , and don't really tell much more than he was a cardinal. He wa...

I suppose if we wanted to find a Christian parallel to Maimonides, Thomas Aquinas would be an obvious choice. Born into the aristocracy, not...

I mentioned yesterday that Orleans University had its start in 1230 with teachers and students who fled from turmoil at the University of Pa...

The city of Orleans is in north-central France, in the Loire Valley. In the very early Middle Ages it had been the capital of the Kingdom of...

Although Pope Gregory IX felt it his duty to protect the Jews , he had issues with their Talmud, the collection of Jewish laws and practice...

A 19th century depiction of Geert Groote's Brethren of the Common Life In Latin he was called Gerardus Magnus, but when he was born...

Treatise on Musical Intervals, by Jean de Muris Jean de Muris was mentioned in the post on Ars Nova as the author of Ars novæ musicæ [...

Sancho in a contemporary manuscript King Sancho IV of Castile (1258 - 1295), also known as Sancho the Brave, ruled the combined Iberian...

I shocked myself the other day when I mentioned Duns Scotus in the post on St. Ivo and found that I had nothing in this blog to which to ...