Daily Medieval

The previous post refers to John of Seville being the chief translator from Arabic into Castilian; this is an important linguistic distincti...

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

Merino Ram, bred in Medieval Spain Consider the Iberian Peninsula in the early Middle Ages: the Moors controlled the southern part, and...