Daily Medieval

Sar Shalom ben Moses got too big for his britches. Born into a distinguished family of royal physicians in the Fatimid court in Egypt, he he...

Let me start by saying that "tax farming" and a "tax farmer" are not really about agriculture, except in a tangential se...

Toregene (pictured here, with her name in Mongolian) has been called one of the most powerful women in history. Born into the Naiman tribe (...