Daily Medieval

We've covered bees and beekeeping a few times over the years, and honey has had its own entry, but I don't think we've mentio...

Early Irish law was called Brehon Law, a system of civil (not criminal) rules, some of which survived until the 17th century when they were ...

I remember the character Queenie in the TV show "Lark Rise to Candleford" (based on the partially autobiographical books by Flora ...

Sugar cane was cultivated thousands of years ago—in Southeast Asia; mass cultivation and importation to Europe was not available in the Midd...

The value of honey was no doubt discovered long before human beings started keeping written records. The Egyptians were maintaining bees as ...