Daily Medieval

When I taught high school English Literature, students were aghast at the small sums (a few hundred pounds) that a successful poet might hav...

The previous post on the Mesta mentioned the kings of Castile giving shepherds rights-of-way that overrode those of other landowners in o...

Naalbinding technique [ link ] Technically, today's post is not about knitting, but about an earlier technique with a similar resul...

Lovely ceiling tiles at Cleeve Abbey with asbestos in them Pliny the Elder has a chapter in his Natural History on something he calls ...

Bronze-Iron Age buttons as ornament. [ source ] Although evidence of buttons exists as far back as the classical era, it appears that th...