Daily Medieval

The Spanish Inquisition had more concerns about converts than the regular Roman Inquisition , because the Iberian Peninsula had a larger pe...

There was more than one period of time called an Interregnum ("between reigns") when a ruler for a specific area was lacking. The ...

King Henry III's Statute of Jewry demanded (among other things) that Jews wear a badge conspicuously on their clothing. This was not a ...

North of the Pyrenees in what we now think of as southwestern France is an area the Romans called Aquitania from the Latin aqua , "wate...

The Hohenstaufen family came from unknown origins to be Holy Roman Emperors from 1138 to 1254 (with a break of four years between 1208 and 1...

This is the story of Philip of Courtenay (1243 - 15 December 1283). He was one of the Latin Emperors of Constantinople—the empire was establ...

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