Daily Medieval

The modern Italian word for a notebook is taccuino . It comes from the medieval (and later) popularity of the Tacuinum Sanitatis . That name...

When Pietro De Crescenzi wrote his ground-breaking (pun intended) work on soil management and agriculture, he showed a special interest in ...

Knowledge of proper agricultural techniques waned in the thousand years following the fall of Rome, except in monasteries, where texts on so...

It occurs to me that, in order to explain the importance of Pietro De Crescenzi, I should explain the thousand years that preceded him. With...